As survival rates for children born extremely preterm (EP, <28 weeks’ gestation) have increased with advances in perinatal and neonatal care, their long-term functioning and quality of life assume ...

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 ...

2 Division of Paediatric Medicine and the Paediatric Outcomes Research Team, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 3 Division of General Pediatrics, University ...

Correspondence to Dr Susan Byrne, Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland; suabyrne{at}rcsi.ie Introduction ...

Correspondence to Prof Franz E Babl, Emergency Department, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia; franz.babl{at}rch.org.au There is a lack of evidence-based guidance for management ...

Objectives To examine the prospective associations between infant sleep patterns and subsequent autism characteristics and diagnosis in a population-derived sample. Design, setting and participants ...

Correspondence to Dr Sarah H Milner, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, Worsley Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9NL, UK; S.Milner{at}leeds.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...

Objectives To (1) describe the dispensing of asthma preventers at hospital discharge and estimate its effect on hospital readmissions, and (2) estimate the effect of community asthma preventer ...

Objective To test the hypothesis that kangaroo mother care (KMC) initiated either at birth or at 1 hour after birth reduces moderate or severe hypothermia in term neonates at (A) 1 hour after birth ...

Objective Nurse home visiting (NHV) is designed to redress child and maternal health inequities. Of the previous trials to investigate NHV benefits beyond preschool, none were designed for populations ...

6 Department of Paediatric Pharmacy, Great North Children's Hospital 7 Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Great North Children’s Hospital Methods We chose a common clinical problem as a functional ...

Evaluation and medical management of poisoning is often aided by laboratory tests. These range from basic analyses used ...