The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...

Correspondence to Dr Frances Hutchings, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8BJ, UK; fhutchings{at}doctors.org.uk ...

During the 10-year period 1960-69, 137 patients in Ruchill Hospital were diagnosed by clinical and laboratory findings as mumps meningitis. Parotitis was detected in only 51 (37%). There was a male ...

AIMS To delineate common and variable features and outcome of children with congenital disorder of glycosylation type Ia (CDG-Ia) caused by the frequent R141H/F119LPMM2 genotype. METHODS Clinical data ...

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA Andreas Meyer-Heim, Mühlebergstr. 104, ...

Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, Derbyshire Children's Hospital, Derby, UK Correspondence to Zayed Alsulami, Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, ...

5 Institute of Health and Society, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle University, UK Correspondence to Professor Ann Le Couteur, Newcastle University, Sir James Spence Institute, Royal Victoria ...

Correspondence to Andreea Chiorean, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; andreea.chiorean{at}mail.utoronto.ca Objective To ...

PURPOSE Comparison of bone age assessed using either the “atlas matching” method of Greulich and Pyle or the “point scoring system” of Tanner and Whitehouse (TW2). MATERIALS AND METHODS 362 ...

Aims Time to diagnosis (TTD) in childhood cancer varies between tumour types. Most early diagnosis research in the United Kingdom has a predominant focus on brain tumours and tertiary centre ...

aDepartments of Medicine (Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism) and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, bDepartment of Medicine ...

a Saudi Aramco— Al-Hasa Health Center, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Al-Hasa Specialty Services Division, b Paediatric Unit Dr H Narchi, Al-Hasa Specialty Services Division, Saudi Aramco—Al-Hasa Health ...