Methods We used novel linkage between health and education records from the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) database to develop a whole-country cohort of children ...

Objectives Asthma is the most common chronic condition in children, affecting 2–3 in every primary school class.1 Asthma disproportionately affects children living in poverty due to air pollution, ...

Background The use of biologic agents allows the application of precision medicine in the treatment of paediatric severe asthma. Aim To describe the real-life effectiveness of biologic agents in ...

Objectives Critical appraisal and evidence based medicine (EBM) are ‘academic’ skills that guide daily practice and drive improvements in patient care, and are thus essential components of the ...

Aims: To investigate long term effects of early adverse circumstances on cognitive function. Methods: Associations between early material home circumstances, parental divorce, maternal management and ...

Results 29 patients (52% Male, median age 8 years) were included in the study. A1555G testing at the PTC was done in 75% of eligible patients. All patients screened were negative. Only 19 patients (65 ...

Background Organisations in England's National Health Service (NHS) are required to have ‘did not attend’ (DNA) guidelines to help deal with the ‘unseen child’. Aims To map DNA and associated ...

On 20 February 2020, so-called Italian Patient 1 was admitted to the intensive care unit of his local hospital due to a deteriorating clinical condition from SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection. In Italy, ...

Objectives The climate crisis is a leading threat to the well being of children globally. In November 2022, we, International Child Health Group (ICHG), ran an international virtual conference ...

Objective The aim of this research was to ascertain the effectiveness of current electronic prescribing (EP) systems to prevent a standardised set of paediatric prescribing errors likely to cause harm ...

One quarter of all adults in the UK are regular smokers, the vast majority having started smoking in their teens. Teenage smoking, especially in females, continues to increase both as regards the ...

Introduction Bronchiolitis is a very common acute respiratory illness affecting infants and is a significant cause of acute morbidity in the first 12 months of life. The diagnosis of bronchiolitis is ...