The Baby-Friendly Initiative: Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding.

abstract：Background:Constipation is a common condition in children. Little is known about the acute health care utilization of constipated children, including how many present to the paediatric emergency department (ED), the spectrum of presenting complaints, investigations and treatments used. Methods:We conducted a cross-sec...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Nutter A,Meckler G,Truong M,Doan Q

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paediatric restless legs syndrome (RLS) treatment is important because RLS's associated sleep disturbance causes significant developmental-behavioural morbidity and impacts family well-being. RLS is associated with brain iron insufficiency and dopaminergic dysfunction. Diagnosis requires fulfillment of diagnostic crit...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Dosman C,Witmans M,Zwaigenbaum L

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concussion has emerged as an important public health issue affecting thousands of Canadians annually. Health care providers including paediatricians, family and emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and nurse practitioners are commonly tasked with the responsibility of providing primary care to patients with acute co...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Ellis MJ,Bauman S,Cowle S,Fuselli P,Tator CH

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori infection is acquired in childhood and plays a causative role in chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and the development of gastric cancer. The present review focuses on recent advances in the management of H pylori infection in children and provides an update of current Canadian guidelines reg...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Jones NL

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is recognized as an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Vaccine development has been challenging in young infants and has required the advent of molecular technologies to optimize the safety profile, while maintaining immunogenicity of live-attenuated vaccines. Prote...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Sales V,Wang EE

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES:In 2001, a chart review of children referred to the authors' endocrine clinic because of short stature revealed that many were referred with insufficient baseline data, had normal height velocity and were within genetic target height. Therefore, a two-way fax communication system was implemented b...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Chiniara L,Perry RJ,Van Vliet G,Huot C,Deal C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial stewardship is a recent concept that embodies the practical, judicious use of antimicrobials to decrease adverse outcomes from antimicrobials while optimizing the treatment of bacterial infections to reduce the emergence of resistant pathogens. The objectives of the present statement are to illustrate th...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Le Saux N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Formal sexual education is a mandatory component of the high school curriculum in most Canadian provinces. The present study was a preliminary assessment of sexual knowledge among a sample of Ontario adolescents who had completed their high school sexual education requirements. METHODS:A questionnaire, test...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Kumar MM,Lim R,Langford C,Seabrook JA,Speechley KN,Lynch T

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parents of children with type 1 diabetes commonly worry about the ability of school personnel to respond to their child's diabetes needs, and may feel anxious about the health, safety and inclusion of their child in school. Physicians may be confronted by parents' fears, anxieties and apprehension, and need to know ho...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Henderson G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions. Many of these children have risk factors for later disease, including cardiovascular disease. For optimal cardiovascular health, health care professionals must be able to identify children and youth at risk and provide appropriate support as needed. The present artic...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Bridger T

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Details of an innovative model for providing health education to families and patients using a coordinated series of skill-based educational opportunities are described. The model offers a variety of educational courses for parents of children at each developmental stage. Each course provides transferable skills that ...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Buchanan D

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of multiple pregnancy has increased in developed countries, a finding usually attributed to more widespread use of assisted reproductive technologies. Multiple pregnancies are associated with a greater risk of pregnancy complications, including intrauterine growth restriction of one or more of the fetuses, va...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Moore AM,O'Brien K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A number of reports suggest that Aboriginal cultural status is a major risk indicator for drug and alcohol use. The primary purpose of the present paper was to determine whether Aboriginal cultural status is independently associated with risk behaviours, such as marijuana use and alcohol abuse, among youth...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Lemstra M,Neudorf C,Nannapaneni U,Bennett N,Scott C,Kershaw T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of intravenous (IV) therapy at home is an alternative to hospitalization for treatment of infection and a number of other conditions, and has been demonstrated to be effective and safe, to reduce cost and to improve quality of life. While home IV therapy has many advantages for children, it is not u...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Moore D,Bortolussi R

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents who suffer from chronic pain also report complex syndrome-associated disability and distress that can detrimentally affect the quality of their lives and the lives of their family members. Over the past 10 years, there have been significant developments in both methods of assessment and in treatment progra...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Eccleston C,Clinch J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:To investigate the implementation of amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) as bedside monitoring tool of cerebral function in tertiary Canadian Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) over the past decade. Methods:Longitudinal study consisting of online surveys of neonatologists on the use of aEEG in 200...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Grass B,Crosdale B,Keyzers M,Deshpande P,Hahn C,Ly LG,McNamara PJ

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper describes research on the skills and processes associated with word and text reading acquisition in preschool children and during the first years of school. The aim is to provide an overview that gives a sense of the important milestones in language and literacy acquisition. A comparison of children'...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Rvachew S,Savage R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitigating the harmful effects of adverse social conditions is critical to promoting optimal health and development throughout the life course. Many Canadians worry over food access or struggle with household food insecurity. Public policy positions breastfeeding as a step toward eradicating poverty. Breastfeeding ful...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Venu I,van den Heuvel M,Wong JP,Borkhoff CM,Moodie RG,Ford-Jones EL,Wong PD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although acute and subacute lead toxicity requiring active treatment is rare in Canada, paediatricians need to be aware of new evidence linking lower lead levels to neurodevelopmental deficits. Health Canada has identified potential exposures occurring prenatally, in infancy and during early childhood from food and wa...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Buka I,Hervouet-Zeiber C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although multiple critical steps are taken to minimize the risk of infection from transfusion of blood or blood products in developed countries, this risk can never be entirely eliminated. In Canada, the risks of noninfectious transfusion reactions, such as transfusion-related acute lung injury and major allergic or a...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Macdonald NE,O'Brien SF,Delage G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response to suspected or proven infection. Given its importance in terms of morbidity and mortality, a number of initiatives by several professional societies in recent years have led to the development of guidelines for the recognition and timely management of sepsis. The principal e...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Farrell CA

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recreation, globalization, migration, and families visiting friends and relatives (VFRs) overseas have increased the frequency of international travel and potential exposures to tropical diseases. Young infected patients can present a diagnostic challenge to clinicians when they return to Canada, with significant cons...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Audcent T,Hunter A

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disability is a major public health concern worldwide and the situation for children with disabilities is even more serious. The present article will focus on the issue of children with disabilities in low-income countries. Approximately one-third of the world's disabled population is children and many of these disabl...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Cameron DL,Nixon S,Parnes P,Pidsadny M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Child abuse and neglect (CAN) represents an international public health and societal problem, the extent and nature of which are inadequately understood. Child and youth protection programs (CYPPs), based in 16 Canadian paediatric academic health science centres, identify, manage, treat and prevent cases of ...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Bennett S,Plint AC,Mackay M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the factors associated with the sex disparity showing a greater prevalence of obesity/overweight in boys compared with girls in Chinese school children. METHODS:Sampled students and their parents were asked to complete a questionnaire. Perceptions of weight status by the parents, grandparents and ...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Li J,Lei J,Wen S,Zhou L

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute otitis media (AOM) continues to be a common infection in young children. Milder disease, usually due to viruses or less virulent bacteria, resolves equally quickly with or without antibiotics. A bulging tympanic membrane, especially if yellow or hemorrhagic, has a high sensitivity for AOM that is likely to be ba...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Le Saux N,Robinson JL,Canadian Paediatric Society, Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether reminder notices would improve the timeliness of toddler-age vaccinations. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled trial. POPULATION STUDIED:Two convenience cohorts of 320 children due to receive either measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine (at 12 months of age) or diphtheria-pertussis...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Bjornson GL,Scheifele DW,Lajeunesse C,Bell A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A checklist that promotes compliance with aseptic technique during line insertion is a component of many care bundles aimed at reducing nosocomial infections among intensive care unit patients. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the use of bundled interventions that include a checklist during central-line inser...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Simpson CD,Hawes J,James AG,Lee KS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread varicella vaccination in Canada since 2007 has changed the epidemiology of chickenpox, with a significant decline in varicella-related hospitalizations. However, there will always be a varicella-susceptible population because of immune-compromising treatments or conditions and/or parental vaccine refusal. T...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Bridger NA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of the teaching role of residents in medical education is increasingly being recognized. There are little data about how this role is perceived within training programs or how residents develop their teaching skills. The aims of the present study were to explore the perspectives of Canadian pa...

journal_title：Paediatrics & child health

authors： Walton JM,Patel H

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00