Objective Assess sociodemographic disparities in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses and determine ...

Background Most guidelines recommend the use of capillary refill time (CRT) as part of the routine assessment of unwell children, but there is little consensus on the optimum method of measurement and ...

Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Bristol Children’s Hospital, Bristol, UK Correspondence to: Professor B K Sandhu Department of Gastroenterology, Bristol Children’s Hospital, Upper ...

1 Paediatrics, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, East Kent Hospitals, Margate, UK 2 Anaesthetics, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, East Kent Hospitals, Margate, UK Aims The ...

BACKGROUND Mortality rates in children with insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM) in the UK are unknown and the causes of death not well documented. AIM To determine the mortality rate and causes of death ...

Introduction Ethnic differences in the birth prevalence of congenital heart defects (CHDs) have been reported; however, studies of the contemporary UK population are lacking. We investigated ethnic ...

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz (Black Sea) Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey Professor H Mocan, Tesvikiye Caddesi No. 143, 80200 Nisantasi-Istanbul, Turkey. To evaluate ...

Correspondence to Simon C Blackburn, Department of Specialist Neonatal and Paediatric Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; ...

Clear sex differences exist in asthma and atopy with a preponderance of boys before puberty. There is a reversal of this sex ratio during puberty with girls having more asthma and atopy throughout the ...

Lawler et al ’s 2025 study, ‘Association between out-of-home care and mortality in children with prenatal drug exposure: a ...

Objective To describe the frequency and nature of non-pharmacological de-escalation methods used for children and adolescents presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with acute severe behavioural ...

PURPOSE Comparison of bone age assessed using either the “atlas matching” method of Greulich and Pyle or the “point scoring system” of Tanner and Whitehouse (TW2). MATERIALS AND METHODS 362 ...