May 2009
36 posts
[Original articles] Food advertising during... →
Background: Television advertisements for less healthy foods are thought to contribute to overweight and obesity in children. In the UK, new regulations on television food advertising to children…
[Original articles] Music for medical indications... →
Objective: To conduct a systematic review of the efficacy of music for medical indications in term or preterm neonates.
Methods: We searched 17 electronic databases; subject bibliographies;…
[Original articles] Treatment of Acne with Oral... →
Background: Theoretical concerns about liver disease and vitamin A deficiency have limited the use of oral isotretinoin for troublesome acne in adolescents with cystic fibrosis.
Methods: We…
[Original articles] Dyskinetic cerebral palsy in... →
Objective: To describe the trends for and severity of dyskinetic cerebral palsy (CP) in a European collaborative study between CP registers, the Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy in Europe (SCPE).
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[Leading articles] Children, Adolescents, and the... →
The media may influence virtually every health concern that parents and pediatricians have about children and adolescents — aggressive behavior, drug use, early sexual activity, obesity, eating…
[Original articles] The information seeking... →
Objectives: To establish the information-seeking behaviours of paediatricians in answering every day clinical queries.
Design: A questionnaire was distributed to every hospital-based…
[Original articles] Joint hypermobility and its... →
Objectives: To determine if joint hypermobility is associated with musculoskeletal pain in a population of Italian schoolchildren.
Methods: Design Cross-sectional, school based study, using a…
[Original articles] Tube feeding and quality of... →
Objective: To assess the QOL of neurologically impaired children before and after gastrostomy (G) and gastrojejunostomy (GJ) tube insertion.
Design: This was a prospective longitudinal study…
[Original articles] Moderately preterm infants and... →
Background: Moderately preterm infants account for a large proportion of admissions and bed-days in neonatal units (NU). Management of these infants varies and determinants of length of stay are…
[Original articles] Protecting infants against... →
Objective: To establish the most appropriate age ranges for the use of human normal immunoglobulin and MMR vaccine as post exposure prophylaxis.
Design: Review of literature and of laboratory…
[Original articles] Group B streptococcal disease... →
Objectives: To describe and quantify the maternal and neonatal factors associated with GBS disease in infants < 90 days of age.
Design: Case control study.
Setting: Neonatal Units in…
[Original articles] The management of infants and... →
Objective: To investigate how infants and children with suspected viral encephalitis are currently managed in a UK tertiary children’s hospital.
Methods: Case note review of all infants and…
[Leading articles] Registration of Trials in... →
The last few years have been characterized by an increasing awareness of the inadequacy of children’s therapeutic options and of science’s insufficient knowledge in the area. The well-documented,…
[Review] Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis →
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis is a rare disease. Depending on which organs are involved the disease may prove rapidly fatal, develop a chronic reactivating but therapy responsive pattern or…
[Leading articles] Compassionate and innovative... →
Although many therapies in child-health are not supported by evidence from research, this is far more likely to be so in rare diseases for which innovative treatment is often considered.
The…
[Original articles] Assessment of doctors'... →
Objective: To determine the utility of a novel paediatric consultation assessment tool (PCAT)
Design: Developed to measure clinicians’ communication behaviour with children and their…
[Original articles] Lenticulostriate vasculopathy... →
Objective: To assess for lenticulostriate vasculopathy (LSV) on cranial ultrasound (cUS) scans of very preterm infants: incidence and etiology, evolution during neonatal period, association with…
[Original articles] Socioeconomic inequalities in... →
Objective: To examine socioeconomic inequalities in neonatal intensive care (NIC) admissions relating to preterm birth, IUGR, multiple births and other conditions.
Methods: Retrospective…
[Original articles] Epidemiology of Biliary... →
Objective: To identify the epidemiological characteristics of infants with biliary atresia in England and Wales, since centralisation of its management in 1999.
Methods: The care of infants…
[Original articles] Adiposity in small for... →
Objective: Infants classified as small for gestational age are considered as having developed under adverse intrauterine conditions that lead to lack of fat mass accretion.
Aim of the study was…
[Original articles] Limb Splinting for Intravenous... →
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of peripheral intravenous cannula (PIVC) site joint immobilization by splint application on functional duration of PIVC in neonates.
Design: Randomized…
[Original articles] Rapid quantitative... →
Background and objective: Serum procalcitonin (PCT) monitoring may help clinicians to manage nosocomial infections in neonates. This study investigated the diagnostic value of a new, rapid method…
[Original articles] Neonatal mortality and... →
Aim: To assess if growth retarded (SGA) extremely preterm infants have excess neonatal mortality and morbidity.
Methods: Cohort study of all infants born alive at 22-27 weeks’ gestational age…
[Papers] Missed opportunities for preventing GBS... →
Background: Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the most common cause of early onset (EO) neonatal infection in the UK. National guidelines for its prevention were introduced in 2003. We assessed the…
[Papers] Who is blaming the baby? →
Sudden unexplained collapse within the first 12 hours of life is a rare but recognised event. Over a 2-year period 5 infants, previously assessed as healthy, were found collapsed in our maternity…
[Leading articles] What has the Cochrane... →
The Cochrane Library is a regularly-updated source of evidence-based reviews to guide clinical care practices. Over the past 15 years, clinicians and consumers have collaborated to generate…
[Review] How has research in the last 5 years... →
This paper considers some of the changes in practice that have occurred in the last five years. There have been significant improvements in parental involvement in care. Not all changes have been…
[Leading articles] What has the Cochrane... →
The Cochrane Library is a regularly-updated source of evidence-based reviews to guide clinical care practices. Over the past 15 years, clinicians and consumers have collaborated to generate…
[Original articles] Loss of triglycerides and... →
Objective: Human milk (HM) is considered to be the best nutrition for preterm infants. However storage, heating or tube feeding can cause a decline in essential nutrients, which can lead to the…
[Leading articles] What has the Cochrane... →
The Cochrane Library is a regularly-updated source of evidence-based reviews to guide clinical care practices. Over the past 15 years, clinicians and consumers have collaborated to generate…
[Original articles] Vitamin K deficiency bleeding... →
Objective: Exclusively breast-fed infants with unrecognized cholestatic jaundice are at high risk of a vitamin K deficiency (VKD) bleeding. It is presently unknown whether (the size of) this risk…
[Original articles] National malnutrition... →
Objective: Nationwide prevalence studies on malnutrition in hospitalized children have not been done. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of malnutrition of all newly admitted children…
[Original articles] Novel hypothesis for... →
Objective: Two recent retrospective studies independently reported typically pathogenic bacteria in normally sterile sites of infants succumbing to Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)….
[Review] Pneumococcal Disease in Sickle Cell... →
Sickle cell disease (SCD) compromises host immune defense and predisposes to infections from several encapsulated bacteria, viruses and parasites. While penicillin prophylaxis and pneumococcal…
[Original articles] Reporting of MMR evidence in... →
Objective: To examine how journals and magazines disseminate research evidence and guidance on best practice to health professionals by aligning commentaries on MMR evidence in journals with key…
[Review] Drug misuse in pregnancy - losing sight... →
Maternal drug misuse can seriously affect the health of the fetus and newborn infant. The association of maternal drug misuse with prematurity, intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) and neonatal…