To determine the incidence and nature of prescribing and medication administration errors in paediatric inpatients. Prospective review of drug charts to identify prescribing…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The authors aimed to evaluate the benefits and harms of universal newborn hearing screening programmes in the detection of hearing impairment. In the absence of randomised…
Systematic flexible bronchoscopy is advocated in the initial management of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis. Our aim was to describe and to compare the systematic flexible…
