Major problems with paediatric bed usage statistics?

abstract：:Two infants presented with a salt-losing syndrome, the presenting features of which were subtle. One case appeared to be transient. Deficient production of aldosterone was shown by plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone profile. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of urine indicated a defect in 18-dehydrogenati...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Milla PJ,Trompeter R,Dillon MJ,Robins D,Shackleton C

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an electronic inhaler timer device (Nebulizer Chronolog), compliance with the prescribed frequency of inhaled prophylactic medication in 14 asthmatic children was measured. Underuse occurred in 55% of study days while overuse occurred in only 2%. Such devices provide an important new tool for investigating inhal...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Coutts JA,Gibson NA,Paton JY

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 256 families, among whom were twins, midparent-adult son correlations for height, weight, and combined skinfold measurements were 0.67, 0.47, and 0.23 respectively. The corresponding midparent-adult daughter correlations were 0.63, 0.42, and 0.24. Midparent-growing offspring correlations were highest for...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hawk LJ,Brook CG

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Travel for the purposes of obtaining medical treatment is increasing, but very little is known about the extent or nature of child medical travel. This paper discusses the outcome of a systematic search for academic literature on paediatric medical travel, outlines the potential significance of 'return health migratio...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Culley L,Hudson N,Baldwin K,Lakhanpaul M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological study of disease in a geographically identified population of 250 children is reported. 22% had not seen their general practitioner (GP) at all in the past year, while 20% had seen him four times or more. The vast majority of these visits were because of an infective illness; and developmental and b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bax M,Hart H

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk factors for mortality were analysed in a consecutive group of 1158 children presenting to the Aga Khan University Medical Center, Karachi, with multidrug resistant typhoid fever that had been proved on culture. There were 19 deaths, representing an overall case fatality rate of 1.6%. Multidrug resistant typho...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bhutta ZA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of 105 children with urinary tract infection showed an increasing prevalence of grades II-III vesicoureteric reflux with diminishing age. During infancy reflux was almost always severe, and affected boys as often as girls. Radiologically scarred kidneys were drained by refluxing ureters in 98% of cases. The p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Shah KJ,Robins DG,White RH

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes bearing the T cell receptor gamma delta (TCR-gamma delta) were searched for in human early milk lymphocyte suspensions by two colour cytofluorimetric analysis. It was found that the proportion of TCR-gamma delta+ cells was twofold greater in colostrum than in either autologous or heterologous blood samples...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bertotto A,Castellucci G,Fabietti G,Scalise F,Vaccaro R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathetic function was studied in 101 diabetic children and 102 age and sex matched control children, as part of a longitudinal study of the evolution of microvascular disease in the population of diabetic children and adolescents in Avon County. The median (range) age of the diabetic population was 13.5 (6.0-17.2) ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Karavanaki K,Davies AG,Hunt LP,Morgan MH,Baum JD

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate a population of individuals with 22q11 deletion syndrome for hypocalcaemia. METHODS:A detailed clinical history enquiring into symptoms of hypocalcaemia and blood sampling to assess for hypocalcaemia and hypoparathyroidism, of patients outside the neonatal period known to have the 22q11 microdeleti...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Taylor SC,Morris G,Wilson D,Davies SJ,Gregory JW

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol for the management of irritable hip was assessed; this protocol avoids hospital admission while detecting all other serious causes of hip pain, in particular septic arthritis, at the earliest possible opportunity. Fifty children with painful hips were studied prospectively with immediate ultrasound guided a...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fink AM,Berman L,Edwards D,Jacobson SK

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary glycosaminoglycan (GAG) excretion was measured in children with idiopathic urolithiasis (15 girls and 10 boys; mean (SD) age 6.2 (2.4) years) and in healthy controls (10 girls and 14 boys; mean (SD) age 6.8 (3.8) years). GAG excretion was expressed as a GAG/creatinine (mg/g) ratio and was evaluated using dimet...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Akçay T,Konukoğlu D,Dínçer Y

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vision screening of 13 and 15 year old children by school nurses in Oxfordshire has declined in recent years due to the pressure of other commitments. A study was carried out to evaluate the likely consequences of failing to provide vision screening for secondary schoolchildren, in order to make a decision about the f...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Jewell G,Reeves B,Saffin K,Crofts B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-month-old girl with invasive perineal amoebiasis is reported. There was destruction of the anus, the rectovaginal septum, the pelvic floor, and the perineum. The rapid progress and destructive potential of perineal amoebiasis is noted and the benefits of diagnostic awareness emphasised. Treatment with metronidazo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wynne JM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four child-protection scenarios were sent to 200 named/designated and non-named/non-designated doctors. The respondents judged each scenario as abuse or accident and indicated their degree of certainty. There was a 71% response rate. There were no significant differences in judgement or degrees of certainty of judgeme...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Power S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine long-term seroprotection after serogroup C meningococcal (MenC) vaccination at the age of 9-12 years, with or without booster vaccination at the age of 13-15 years. DESIGN:Observational cohort study; follow-on from randomised study. SETTING:Participants were recruited from English secondary sc...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Whalley PC,Snape MD,Plested E,Thompson B,Nuthall E,Omar O,Borrow R,Pollard AJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there have been significant advances in genetic technologies, evolving the field of genomics from genetics. This has huge diagnostic potential, as genomic testing increasingly becomes part of mainstream medicine. However, there are numerous potential pitfalls in the interpretation of genomic data. It ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hammond CL,Willoughby JM,Parker MJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Since 1997, strong incentives have been introduced worldwide to improve access to safe and effective medicines addressing the therapeutic needs of children. ACE inhibitors, the most prescribed antihypertensive drugs in the paediatric population, are one of the prototype drugs targeted by the legislation initiat...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Snauwaert E,Vande Walle J,De Bruyne P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a period of 30 months, umbilical artery catheters were inserted in 229 infants. The main complications were haemorrhage, infection, and obstruction of a blood vessel. The incidence of infection was not affected by the use of prophylactic antibiotics. Vascular obstruction was more common in small infants, and in t...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： van Vliet PK,Gupta JM

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether doctors recognise eating disorders in children, in particular anorexia nervosa. A group of paediatricians, general practitioners, and school medical officers was approached to participate in the study. Each was sent a questionnaire including two case vignettes of children...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bryant-Waugh RJ,Lask BD,Shafran RL,Fosson AR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During June and July 1977 5 junior boys in a boarding school for 800 pupils became ill with a mild infection caused by Coxsackie B1. The school had been taking part in a vaccine trial, and paired blood samples had been taken from new entrants in October 1976 and October 1977. 18% of the boys susceptible to the infecti...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hoskins TW,Davies JR,Smith AJ,Collingham K,Chamberlain RN

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEpo) is now available to correct the anaemia of end stage renal failure. The clinical consequences of increasing the haemoglobin concentration in children on dialysis are incompletely documented; a placebo controlled study is essential when assessing subjective changes, for exampl...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morris KP,Sharp J,Watson S,Coulthard MG

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on recent advances of topical interest regarding the diagnosis and treatment of common causes of bacterial meningitis occurring in children beyond the neonatal period. Tuberculous meningitis is beyond the scope of this review. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： El Bashir H,Laundy M,Booy R

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partial androgen insensitivity syndrome occurs in 46,XY subjects with phenotypes ranging from perineoscrotal hypospadias with cryptorchidism and micropenis (mild undervirilisation) to clitoromegaly and partial labial fusion (marked undervirilisation). Within an affected family, wide variation in the degree of geni...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Batch JA,Davies HR,Evans BA,Hughes IA,Patterson MN

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A subnormal cortisol response (30 min level (C30min)<550 nmol/L) to synthetic adrenocorticotrophic hormone/Synacthen test (SDST) in all infants does not necessarily indicate underlying or persistent hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis pathology. METHODS:We retrospectively evaluated the diagnoses and outcome...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tan TSE,Manfredonia C,Kumar R,Jones J,O'Shea E,Padidela R,Skae M,Ehtisham S,Ivison F,Tetlow L,Clayton PE,Banerjee I,Patel L

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal data were analysed on the lung function of 25 of 29 survivors of childhood leukaemia or lymphoma, who had been conditioned with cyclophosphamide and total body irradiation before allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, to test whether children are particularly vulnerable to pulmonary damage after transpla...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Nysom K,Holm K,Hesse B,Ulrik CS,Jacobsen N,Bisgaard H,Hertz H

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standing height, sitting height, armspan, subischial leg length, head circumference, and growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) axis were determined in 86 patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. The aim of this study was to determine standing height and body proportions and their variability among osteogen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lund AM,Müller J,Skovby F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two girls (a 5 year old and a 21 month old) experiencing mononucleosis syndrome with coincidental human herpesvirus (HHV)-7 and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are described. One patient had primary HHV-7 infection and reactivated EBV infection. The other had primary HHV-7 and EBV infections. These cases indicated...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiu HH,Lee CY,Lee PI,Lin KH,Huang LM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of babies colonised with gentamicin resistant Gram negative organisms in a nursery over a 30 month period did not correlate with the quantity or duration of aminoglycosides used, but it did correlate with two indicators of workload: the number of baby days and a score based on the level of nursing care ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Isaacs D,Catterson J,Hope PL,Moxon ER,Wilkinson AR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in transcutaneous oxygen tension (TcPO2) during 123 observations of 10 care procedures were compared with the intrinsic variability of the TcPO2 at the time of the procedures. Standard deviations of the TcPO2 were measured by planimetry from continuous recording in undisturbed infants during a 10-minute co...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Danford DA,Miske S,Headley J,Nelson RM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00