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6 天之前 · 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 ...
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness and uptake in a national cohort of ...
1 天前 · Objective To investigate SARS-CoV-2 vaccine uptake and effectiveness in children and young people (CYP) with life-limiting neurodisability. Design We undertook a retrospective cohort study using national hospital data in England from 21 December 2020 to 2 September 2022 to describe SARS-CoV-2 vaccination uptake, and then examined COVID-19 hospitalisation, paediatric intensive care unit (PICU ...
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2024年9月25日 · Miscellanea. Images in paediatrics: Gingival hyperplasia in a child with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (30 May, 2024) Nidhi Beri, Omendra Narayan, Vivek Mundada. Archivist: Trachoma prevention, azithromycin and reduced mortality (25 September, 2024) Archivist: Long COVID in children and adolescents. What is it? (25 September, 2024)
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The 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 ...
Current evidence-based recommendations on investigating …
Introduction 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 ...
Epidemiology of childhood invasive pneumococcal disease in …
5 天之前 · Background The widespread use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) has changed the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children globally. Methods Multicentre prospective audit of IPD episodes from five paediatric hospitals in Australia over 5.5 years between 2016 and June 2021. Children (<18 years) with Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from a sterile site were included.
Academic child health comes of age: lessons from the first 100 …
5 天之前 · Academic paediatrics started by integrating medical care, scientific research, student teaching and clinical training. This model first appeared in Paris in 1803 at L’Hôpital des Enfants Malades,1 where dedicated staff treated children’s diseases while conducting research and teaching. Later, similar setups in Berlin, Vienna and …
Review and future directions for PIMS-TS (MIS-C)
Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS), also known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), is a novel hyperinflammatory condition that shares features with Kawasaki disease (KD) and toxic shock syndrome (TSS).1–3 The median age of children with PIMS-TS is approximately 8 years with male sex, obesity and black or Asian ...
Should children be vaccinated against COVID-19?
Whether all children under 12 years of age should be vaccinated against COVID-19 remains an ongoing debate. The relatively low risk posed by acute COVID-19 in children, and uncertainty about the relative harms from vaccination and disease mean that the balance of risk and benefit of vaccination in this age group is more complex. One of the …
Global incidence and mortality of neonatal sepsis: a systematic …
Background 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 ...