Aim To understand whether the risk of complications following paediatric cardiac surgery differs according to a child’s ...

Effective discharge communication is essential to ensuring safe transitions of care, especially for children and young people ...

The Archives of Disease in Childhood ’s centenary provides an opportunity to reflect on how our attitudes to child abuse have ...

Fibre is an essential nutrient in the human diet that is crucial for human health. It provides a range of functional benefits, including stool bulking, and physiological benefits through fermentation ...

As outlined in ‘Medicines update: oral iron for the management of iron deficiency anaemia in infants and children’,1 the dosing of oral iron salts for adults has changed significantly following ...

Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to Dr I Wolfe, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London ...

Rationale Studies suggest that increased breastfeeding rates can provide substantial financial savings, but the scale of such savings in the UK is not known. Objective To calculate potential cost ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

1 Paediatric Rheumatology/Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2 ...

Correspondence to Laila Akbar Ladak, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney Nursing School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; llad8915{at}uni.sydney.edu.au Background As survival improves ...

Search strategy The following databases were searched for studies about colchicine in children with pericarditis (June 2015): Cochrane Central, Medline, EMBASE and LILACS. Eligibility criteria All ...

AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of home visiting programmes on parenting and quality of the home environment. DESIGN Systematic review of the literature of randomised controlled trials and ...