Objective To externally validate the Paediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for identifying febrile ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a potentially chronic infection that can be transmitted from mother to child with the risk of ...

1 Paediatric Liver, GI and Nutrition Centre, King's College London School of Medicine at King's College Hospital, London, UK 2 Institute of Liver Studies, King's College London School of Medicine at ...

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 ...

Aims: To investigate whether it is possible to determine the age of a bruise in a child in clinical practice by means of a systematic review. Methods: An all language literature search up to 2004.

4 School of Clinical Medical Sciences (Child Health), Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 5 Division of Health in the Community, Warwick ...

BACKGROUND Measurements of heart rate variability (HRV) are increasingly used as markers of cardiac autonomic activity. AIM To examine circadian variation in heart rate and HRV in children. SUBJECTS A ...

1 Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 2 Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University Correspondence to: Dr G Annerén, Department of Genetics ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK 2 Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, St George’s Hospitals NHS FT, London, UK 3 Department of Paediatrics, St George’s Hospitals ...

5 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK Background Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a potentially disabling condition. There is a lack of evidence and ...

Background There is strong evidence that oral steroids improve outcomes in adult patients with Bell’s palsy, but no consensus for paediatric patients. Different management approaches exist. All use ...

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