Background Preterm infants often require line insertion and are known to be at high risk of temperature instability during these procedures. Both hypothermia and hyperthermia adversely affect patient ...

Aims Term admissions contribute a significant burden with respect to neonatal unit care and maternal-infant separation. Thus, there has been a recent NHS England focus on reducing avoidable term ...

There are at least 12 paintings from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries titled, ‘The Sick Child’. They were painted by ...

Correspondence to Dr John Murphy, Department of Neonatology, The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; johnmurphy104{at}hotmail.com Aims Currently there is debate on how best ...

Improved measurement in early child development (ECD) is a strategic focus of the WHO, UNICEF and World Bank Nurturing Care Framework. However, evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluation ...

Objectives To estimate the incidence of clinically diagnosed congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), clinical features and age at first presentation. To assess the potential benefit of newborn screening ...

Clinicians of all professions who treat children have an interest in the capabilities of their patients. Not least as to whether the child in front of them can make treatment decisions. We seek, ...

Correspondence to Dr Jeffrey M Pernica, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada; pernica{at}mcmaster.ca Objective The objective of this study was to understand ...

Dr Mary Fewtrell, Reader in Childhood Nutrition, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH; m.fewtrell{at}ich.ucl.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...

Introduction The Irish Office of the State Pathologist (OSP) provides a forensic pathology service for cases of criminal, ...