February 2010
28 posts
Could CT scan avoid unnecessary flexible... →
Background Systematic flexible bronchoscopy is advocated in the initial management of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis.
Methods Our aim was to describe and to compare the systematic flexible…
Child Healthcare Information and Learning... →
Advanced care planning in children with... →
A cross-sectional study examining the pattern of... →
Background The aim of this paper was to investigate variations in childhood obesity globally and spatially at the micro-level across Leeds.
Methods Body mass index data from three sources were…
The management of infants and children treated... →
Objective To investigate how infants and children with suspected viral encephalitis are currently managed in a UK tertiary children’s hospital.
Methods Case notes of all infants and children who…
Palliative care in Yorkshire, UK 1987-2008:... →
Objective To provide new epidemiological evidence base of information on models of hospice care for children and young adults.
Design Retrospective cohort study of children referred to a…
Paediatric organ donation in the UK →
Hearing screening in newborns: systematic review... →
Background The authors aimed to evaluate the benefits and harms of universal newborn hearing screening programmes in the detection of hearing impairment.
Objectives In the absence of randomised…
Atoms →
The incidence and nature of prescribing and... →
Objectives To determine the incidence and nature of prescribing and medication administration errors in paediatric inpatients.
Design Prospective review of drug charts to identify prescribing…
Images in paediatrics: A tight airway →
Stress and psychosomatic symptoms in Chinese... →
Objective The Chinese educational system is highly competitive from the start of primary school with great emphasis on academic performance and intolerance of failure. This study aimed to explore…
National malnutrition screening days in... →
Objective Nationwide prevalence studies on malnutrition in hospitalised children have not been done. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of malnutrition of all newly admitted children…
Long-term steroid treatment and growth: a study in... →
Objective High-dose steroid therapy in children is known to impair growth. What is unknown is the level of steroid therapy at which children continue to grow normally. This study was designed to…
When should we be conducting thyroid function... →
An audit of local practice was undertaken as regards requests for thyroid function tests (TFT) in children aged between birth and 3 months at two local hospitals in South West England between 2005…
Symmetric dimethylarginine, an endogenous marker... →
Objectives To perform a cross-sectional comparison of endogenous markers of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (plasma symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) and estimated GFR (eGFR)) with a direct…
Bilateral or unilateral cochlear implantation for... →
Objective Cochlear implantation in one ear (unilateral implantation) has been the standard treatment for severe-profound childhood deafness. We assessed whether cochlear implantation in both ears…
Correction →
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Aminoglycoside-induced deafness during treatment... →
Three unrelated children from ethnically diverse backgrounds who were treated for acute leukaemia became profoundly and irreversibly deaf during treatment. Aminoglycoside levels were within the…