Aims Extremely premature infants are at higher risk for intracranial ischaemic and haemorrhagic injuries, which often occur in the first 72 hours after birth. 1 Intraventricular haemorrhages (IVHs) ...

Background The gold standard for diagnosis of meningitis is the isolation of a pathogen from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by culture or PCR. However, treatment is routinely commenced based on CSF ...

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, ...

5 Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Objective To examine the association between parental anxiety and depression with child fussy eating—that is, ...

Objective The critical importance of a secure mother-infant attachment relationship for long-term physical and mental health of the child is well established. Our study aim was to explore mothers’ ...

Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital, AP-HP, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France 2 Department of Pediatric Emergencies and Infectious Diseases, Roger-Salengro Hospital, ...

Objective To determine whether infants with severe persistent sleep problems are at increased risk of (1) meeting diagnostic criteria for a psychiatric disorder (age 10 years), and (2) having elevated ...

Objective To compare immunological responses of preterm infants to a four-component meningococcal B vaccine (4CMenB; Bexsero) following a 2+1 vs a 3+1 schedule, and to describe reactogenicity of ...

Objective The children's head injury algorithm for the prediction of important clinical events (CHALICE) is one of the strongest clinical prediction rules for the management of children with head ...

Correspondence to Dr Elliot Long, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Royal Children's Hospital, 50 Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC 3052 Australia; Elliot.long{at}rch.org.au Objective Quality ...

Objective To develop an Overall Pediatric Health Standard Set (OPH-SS) of outcome measures that captures what matters to young people and their families and recognising the biopsychosocial aspects of ...