ADC is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and as highlighted by the introductory article by Dr Bulock, this article, along ...

Despite a wealth of studies demonstrating that a significant minority of parents are affected psychologically by their child’s admission to paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), there is still little ...

Jean Aicardi In paediatric practice, the term ‘funny turn’ is commonly used to refer to a child presenting with paroxysmal episodes of transient loss of consciousness, blank staring, unusual behaviour ...

Objectives Near-peer teaching (NPT) is an approach to medical education that benefits both students and educators (1, 2). Paediatric trainees are expected to plan and deliver teaching (3) but lack ...

Correspondence to Laila Akbar Ladak, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney Nursing School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; llad8915{at}uni.sydney.edu.au Background As survival improves ...

Dr Astrid E Lammers, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; astridlammers{at}gmx.de Objective: The 6-minute walk test ...

3 Department of Paediatric Psychology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK 4 Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS ...

Background Many infants born prematurely experience growth failure following delivery, with subsequent catch-up growth. Traditionally catch-up was thought to be complete in the first few years of life ...

Background We assessed the biopsychosocial needs and key health drivers among children living with a common chronic illness, as baseline for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a child health ...

Background Despite extensive knowledge on the functional, neurodevelopmental, behavioural and educational sequelae of preterm birth, relatively little is known about its economic consequences.

Clinicians of all professions who treat children have an interest in the capabilities of their patients. Not least as to whether the child in front of them can make treatment decisions. We seek, ...

Objectives Babies born to mothers living in more deprived areas are at a higher risk of dying during the neonatal period. 1 Pre-term and unwell term babies are cared for in neonatal intensive units ...