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WEB6 days ago · Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC) is an international and peer-reviewed journal specialising in child health, covering the perinatal period through to adolescence. As an official journal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, ADC provides paediatricians with the most recent, relevant and original research reports ...
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WEBAuthors who submit to Archives of Disease in Childhood and are rejected will be offered the option of transferring to BMJ Paediatrics Open. BMJ Paediatrics Open is the open access companion journal to Archives of Disease in Childhood. It is indexed by PubMed Central, Scopus, Embase, DOAJ, and Google Scholar, and publishes articles dealing with ...
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WEBThe content of Archives of Disease in Childhood is endorsed by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health for Continued Professional Development in line with RCPCH CPD guidelines. Archives of Disease in Childhood is the flagship of BMJ’s paediatrics portfolio and has an open access companion journal, BMJ Paediatrics Open.For information about the Editor-in-Chief and editorial team ...
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WEBSep 12, 2024 · June 21, 2024. Paediatric Emergency Medicine. Role of urine Gram stain in young febrile infants with a suspected urinary tract infection: a cohort study. Borja Gomez, Ana Mier, Alberto Ugedo, Amaia Aguirre-Quiñonero, Javier Benito, Santiago Mintegi. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2024-327182.
Current evidence-based recommendations on investigating …
WEBIntroduction Global developmental delay (GDD) affects 1%–3% of the population of children under 5 years of age, making it one of the most common conditions presenting in paediatric clinics; causes are exogenous, genetic (non-metabolic) or genetic (metabolic). Recent advances in biotechnology and genetic testing mean that the investigations available to perform for children under 5 years are ...
Global incidence and mortality of neonatal sepsis: a systematic …
WEBBackground Neonates are at major risk of sepsis, but data on neonatal sepsis incidence are scarce. We aimed to assess the incidence and mortality of neonatal sepsis worldwide. Methods We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis. 13 databases were searched for the period January 1979–May 2019, updating the search of a previous systematic review and extending it in order to increase ...
COVID-19 related increase in childhood tics and tic-like attacks
WEBSince the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, paediatricians and child mental health practitioners have noticed an increase in tic symptoms in some children and adolescents already diagnosed with tic disorders.1 Interestingly, clinicians have also seen a marked increase in presentations of sudden and new onset of severe tics and ‘tic-like’ attacks. There is an urgent need to collate systematic ...
Acute attacks of respiratory distress: moving from description to a ...
WEBJul 30, 2024 · The stupendous scientific advances in understanding disease in children have delivered really spectacular treatment advances, highly effective modulator therapies (HEMTs) in cystic fibrosis (CF) being an obvious example. But clearly, the essential pre-requisite for this sort of precision medicine is a thorough understanding of the biology of the disease. Ivacaftor was the first specific ...
Chronic conditions in children and young people: learning from ...
WEBOver the last century, the primary burden of disease in children and young people has shifted from infectious diseases towards chronic conditions.1 Improvements in neonatal and paediatric care for chronic conditions mean more children with previously lethal conditions are now surviving into adulthood.2 ,3 Depending on the definition used, 13–27% of children are affected by chronic conditions ...
The First Thousand Days: early, integrated and evidence-based ...
WEBThe ‘First Thousand Days’ refers to the period from conception to the child’s second birthday. It is increasingly gaining traction as a concept to guide public health policy. It is seen as a crucial window of opportunity for interventions that improve child and population health. This review outlines the origin and growth of the First Thousand Days concept, and the evidence behind it ...