Imperial College, London and River Island Paediatric and Child Health Academic Centre, Northwick Park Hospital Campus, Harrow, Middlesex, UK Aim: To assess the impact of a purpose-built, short stay ...

Background: Difficulty falling asleep (prolonged sleep latency) is a frequently reported problem in school-aged children. Aims: This study aimed to describe the distribution of sleep latency and ...

Research on distress and coping provides theoretical and practical information on treatment. Cognitive and behavioural coping with illness itself or a specific treatment affect adjustment in the ...

Objectives To evaluate London paediatric trainee priorities and identify areas of improvement to achieve an outstanding training programme. To compare these results to previous years to monitor trends ...

Objective Impaired fetal and infant growth may cause alterations in developmental programming of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis and subsequently pubertal development. We aimed to assess ...

Most children in hospital who are clinically deteriorating are monitored regularly, and their treatment is escalated effectively. However a small, but significant, number of deteriorating children ...

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 ...

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 investigate whether nebulised hypertonic saline (HS) treatment would decrease length of hospital stay (LOS) among infants with moderate-to severe-bronchiolitis compared with standard ...

Objective To investigate a possible association between fever admissions and 4 component Meningococcal B (4CMenB). Design 4CMenB is given at 8 and 16 weeks in the first year of life. Self-controlled ...

Background The epidemiology of congenital infections is ever changing, with a recent resurgence in syphilis infection rates seen in the UK. Identification of congenital infection is often delayed; ...

Introduction Global developmental delay (GDD) affects 1%–3% of the population of children under 5 years of age, making it one of the most common conditions presenting in paediatric clinics; causes are ...