Objective To estimate the cost of paediatric asthma from a UK National Health Service (NHS) and societal perspective and explore determinants of these costs. Design Cost analysis based on data from a ...

AIMS To determine whether nebulised budesonide improves the symptoms or shortens the duration of stay of children admitted to hospital with a clinical diagnosis of croup. METHODS A prospective, ...

1 Royal Children’s Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition, Melbourne, Australia 2 Royal Children’s Hospital, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Melbourne, Australia 3 ...

2 Department Community Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK 3 Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, ...

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Objective The ‘GP check’ at 6–8 weeks forms part of the selective surveillance system for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in the UK. It is imperative to pick up DDH within the first months of ...

1 Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate physical activity energy expenditure (AEE) in groups of free living infants in the first year of life. DESIGN Mixed longitudinal study of 124 healthy infants, using 232 ...

Department of Paediatric Surgery, United Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and St James’s and Seacroft University Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds Mr M D Stringer, Department of Paediatric Surgery, ...

David Pace, Oxford Vaccine Group, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK; ...

Background Time out of clinical practise is common in postgraduate paediatric training. Our Deanery can expect around 60 paediatric trainees to be on maternity leave at any time; the majority of whom ...