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 ...

Aim DRC software aims to reduce dosing errors, 1 however, it has been linked to ‘alert fatigue’, a phenomenon which causes prescribers to potentially override alerts despite being clinically relevant.

Objectives Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD) often co-exist with a wider range of emotional, behavioural, and intellectual disorders, collectively grouped together as NDEBID. The commonest NDD are ...

Background Having a baby requiring admission to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be very distressing for families and there may be a significant period after birth where parents do not see or ...

Objective Leukaemia is the most common cancer of childhood, accounting for a third of cases. In order to assist clinicians in its early detection, we systematically reviewed all existing data on its ...

Anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence are extremely common and are often associated with lifelong psychiatric disturbance. Consistent with DSM-5 and the extant literature, this review ...

Background Over the last few years, there has been increasing attention to the involvement of the central nervous system in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The aim of this study was to assess the ...

AIM To identify permanent sequelae after sports injuries in children and adolescents. METHODS In 1985, a prospective register was drawn up of all sports related injuries reported that year by the ...

Objectives Develop a score summarising how successfully a child with any surgical condition has been treated, and test the clinical validity of the score. Design Discrete choice experiment (DCE), and ...

Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Matthew Thompson, Oxford University Department of Primary Health Care, Rosemary ...

1 Yorkshire Regional Centre for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK 2 Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and ...

Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, London W2 1NY, UK If you wish to reuse any or ...