Community based, effective, low cost approach to the treatment of severe malnutrition in rural Jamaica.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and test patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) for children and young people in a specialist paediatric hospital setting. DESIGN:Six PREMs were developed and tested by children and young people for children and young people aged 8-11, 12-13 and 14-16 years in inpatient and outpatient settin...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wray J,Hobden S,Knibbs S,Oldham G

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the value and safety of fasts for investigating hypoglycaemia or suspected metabolic disease. STUDY DESIGN:Review of all diagnostic fasts performed over a 2.5 year period. SETTING:The neonatal intensive care unit and programmed investigation unit at a tertiary referral centre for endocrinology and metab...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morris AA,Thekekara A,Wilks Z,Clayton PT,Leonard JV,Aynsley-Green A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monthly increments of length, weight gain, and head circumference were recorded from birth to 4 years of age in 52 children with cystic fibrosis. At birth the children showed stunting. Standard deviation (SD) scores at birth for height, weight, and head circumference were -1.24, -0.72, and -1.82 respectively. Over the...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ghosal S,Taylor CJ,Pickering M,McGaw J,Beckles-Willson N,Wales JK

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When prescribing drugs for children, it is fundamental to acknowledge that they are distinct from adults with a different physiology and metabolism. They are also still maturing. The development of drugs with a primarily paediatric indication thus requires the trialling of these drugs in a paediatric population to ass...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Prasad S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on adolescent drug use are scarce as most studies do not distinguish between children and adolescents. Therefore, we assessed overall drug use in adolescents. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study was conducted using pharmacy dispensing records from 62 community pharmacies in the Netherlands. Dispens...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kosse RC,Koster ES,de Vries TW,Bouvy ML

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the accuracy of a low cost, spring calibrated, hand held scale in classifying newborns into three weight categories (> or =2500 g, 2000-2499 g, <2000 g). METHODS:The test device was compared to a gold standard digital baby scale with precision to 2 g. In Sarlahi district, Nepal, 1890 newborns were el...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mullany LC,Darmstadt GL,Coffey P,Khatry SK,LeClerq SC,Tielsch JM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial exercise tests were carried out by 12 children with asthma on two study days. After a control exercise test either nedocromil sodium 4 mg or placebo were given double blind by metered dose inhaler. Highly significant inhibition of exercise induced asthma occurred after nedocromil, lasting for over two hours. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chudry N,Correa F,Silverman M

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the effect of body composition on average daily metabolic rate (ADMR) and basal metabolic rate (BMR) in adolescence, and to examine current BMR prediction equations. STUDY:Dutch adolescents were pooled with previously reported American and British subjects (n = 90 overall). BMR and ADMR were analyse...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： van Mil EG,Westerterp KR,Kester AD,Saris WH

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of a non-epileptic florid movement disorder presenting as status epilepticus. Both patients presented with florid jerking of the limbs and eyes. Convulsive status epilepticus related to presumed meningitis or encephalitis was suspected in both cases. The patients received treatment for seizures, ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Haden SV,McShane MA,Holt CM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antibiotic drugs are frequently used for viral infections in children. It is probable that health beliefs and parental concern have great influence on the use of drugs in children. This study, performed in The Netherlands, investigates whether the use of antibiotics in children is associated with the use of m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Jong J,Bos JH,de Vries TW,de Jong-van den Berg LT

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality from cystic fibrosis throughout childhood is more than twice as high in England and Wales than it is in the State of Victoria, Australia. Possible reasons for this difference are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Phelan P,Hey E

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acute paediatrics, overtreatment and overdiagnosis is encountered in threshold and developed countries. The reason for overtreatment may be similar in the two settings, namely the mere availability of invasive procedures, which may lead to their inappropriate use. Physiological healing processes should be integrate...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Frey B

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long term growth hormone (GH) treatment in children with idiopathic short stature (ISS) results in a relatively small mean gain in final height of 3-9 cm, which may not justify the cost of treatment. As it is unknown whether GH treatment during puberty adds to final height gain, we sought to improve the cost...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kamp GA,Waelkens JJ,de Muinck Keizer-Schrama SM,Delemarre-Van de Waal HA,Verhoeven-Wind L,Zwinderman AH,Wit JM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mentoring is important for personal and professional development of doctors. Peer mentoring is a core skill in the UK paediatric postgraduate curriculum. However, there is a paucity of peer mentoring programmes aimed at postgraduate doctors in training (postgraduate trainees), and there are no such schemes w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Eisen S,Sukhani S,Brightwell A,Stoneham S,Long A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24 hour energy balance study was carried out on 20 black Kenyan children with acute measles and repeated after recovery. The energy content of a weighed 24 hour food intake and of a simultaneous collection of faeces and urine was determined by bomb calorimetry. Energy expenditure was measured by indirect calorimetry...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Duggan MB,Alwar J,Milner RD

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of a simple questionnaire and measurements of height, weight, and peak expiratory flow rates 3061 children from city and rural populations were studied. Children with asthma or other respiratory diseases had lower peak expiratory flow rates, and younger children living in rural areas had higher rates. In 2828...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Carson JW,Hoey H,Taylor MR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis for three years required three monthly transfusions. Circulating avian, gliadin, and reticulin antibodies suggested the diagnosis of gluten enteropathy, and jejunal biopsy showed subtotal villous atrophy. During 15 months on a gluten free diet his growth and behaviour i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reading R,Watson JG,Platt JW,Bird AG

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Eithe low birthweight infants were studied for their metabolic and hormonal responses to intravenous alimentation when the caloric input was varied. The study was made during three consecutive 12-hour periods, when solutions of glucose, glucose and amino-acids, and glucose and amino-acid and lipids were successively i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Rubecz I,Mestyán J,Varga P,Soltész G

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mode of delivery has recently gained attention as another potential perinatal risk factor for childhood obesity but results are conflicting. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether caesarean section is independently associated with childhood obesity after adjusting for a broad range of confounding factors. METHOD...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Flemming K,Woolcott CG,Allen AC,Veugelers PJ,Kuhle S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The effect of adenoidectomy on nasopharyngeal colonisation of pathogens has not previously been evaluated. The authors studied the effect of adenoidectomy on nasopharyngeal colonisation by bacteria causing otitis media and the effect of adenoidectomy on the development of pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mattila PS,Hammarén-Malmi S,Saxen H,Kaijalainen T,Käyhty H,Tarkkanen J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the role of viruses in febrile seizures (FS) by comparing the relative risk (RR) of developing FS with common viral infections and subsequent risk of recurrence. METHODS:We matched the medical records of all children admitted with FS over 5 years and the contemporary records for all admissions fo...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chung B,Wong V

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary lithogenic and inhibitory factors were studied in 27 preterm infants; 16 had total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and 11 had breastmilk with an additional glucose-sodium chloride infusion. Urines were collected for 24 hours on day 2 (period A), day 3 (B), and once between days 4 and 10 (C). Urinary calcium oxalate...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hoppe B,Hesse A,Neuhaus T,Fanconi S,Forster I,Blau N,Leumann E

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two neonates with severe culture proven pertussis were successfully treated with salbutamol 0.5 mg three times daily. There was a demonstrable decrease in the total number of coughing spasms, their mean duration and severity. In one baby this was shown by the transcutaneous oxygen tension measurements. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tam AY,Yeung CY

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclosporine A (CsA) has been widely used in children with steroid dependent and steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome (NS) because of its efficacy in relieving these patients from systemic side effects of steroids. However, its long term use is controversial, since chronic CsA induced nephropathy (CsAN) may ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fujinaga S,Kaneko K,Muto T,Ohtomo Y,Murakami H,Yamashiro Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatomedin activity was assayed in the plasma of children suffering from protein calorie malnutrition by a bioassay using rat cartilage and expressed as sulphate uptake ratio. The sulphate uptake ratio was particularly reduced in kwashiorkor. In marasmus there was a slight reduction and the levels were still in the n...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mohan PS,Jaya Rao KS

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female genital mutilation (FGM) is almost always performed on children and consequently paediatricians should have a central role in the detection and prevention of FGM. FGM has no health benefits and can cause lifelong damage to physical and psychological health. Extensive migration of FGM practising communities mean...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Creighton SM,Hodes D

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in children is a controversial diagnosis with unclear aetiology, ill defined but likely increasing incidence, and debatable clinical management options. However these children experience real and considerable suffering. Appropriate research in this clinical population is sparse...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Patel MX,Smith DG,Chalder T,Wessely S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have shown a correlation between increased accident rates and levels of deprivation in the community. School accident reporting is one area where an association might be expected. AIMS:To investigate differences in primary school accident rates in deprived and more affluent wards, in an area managed...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Latif AH,Williams WR,Sibert J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between current micturition habits and previous urinary tract infection was analysed among 3553 school entrants aged 7 years by means of a questionnaire. A high incidence of urinary infection, confirmed by urine culture, was found (145 (8.4%) in the 1719 girls and 32 (1.7%) in the 1834 boys). There was...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hellström A,Hanson E,Hansson S,Hjälmås K,Jodal U

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00