Why did you do this work? Children’s Intensive Care (CICU) is a complex and challenging environment where nuanced and critical care is delivered to each patient. As trainees rotate through this unit ...

SMA is a motor neuron disease characterised by generalised muscle atrophy and weakness. It is caused by the dysfunction and eventual death of motor neurons, due to deletions of SMN1 in 95% of patients ...

Objective According to international guidelines, children with enuresis are recommended urotherapy, or basic bladder advice, before treatment with evidence-based alternatives such as the enuresis ...

Neisseria meningitidis is remarkable for the diversity of interactions that the bacterium has with the human host, ranging from asymptomatic nasopharyngeal colonisation affecting virtually all members ...

Background and Objectives Prolonged neonatal jaundice is defined as jaundice persisting in a term neonate at 14 days and a preterm neonate at 21 days of age. Prolonged neonatal jaundice is most ...

Objectives To describe trends in reported weight loss attempts among school-aged children and to investigate its sociodemographic determinants. Design We analysed data of children who participated in ...

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 ...

Child marriage (marriage before age 18 years) is an internationally recognised health and human rights violation disproportionately affecting girls, globally. Although the practice of girl child ...

Objective To compare and contrast the perceived care needs of children with life-limiting conditions (CLLC) from the perspectives of the children, parents and healthcare providers. Design A ...

Background Mortality from sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) has declined dramatically since the ‘Back to Sleep’ campaign. Deaths now are more prevalent in those with socioeconomic disadvantage ...

Introduction The immunisation schedule is designed to optimise protection from serious infectious diseases by providing individual direct protection and, where appropriate, sustained population-level ...

Objective To explore and categorise the nature of promotional claims on packaging of commercial baby foods (CBFs). Setting UK Methodology An online survey of CBFs (for infants up to 12+ months) in 7 ...