Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Matthew Thompson, Oxford University Department of Primary Health Care, Rosemary ...

Objective To evaluate the impact of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) on child and family functioning. Design Prospective survey. Setting Multidisciplinary FASD assessment service. Patients ...

In order to assess the extent to which children in the UK will follow the UK-WHO head circumference standard, the authors used head circumference data from the Southampton Women's Survey (n=3159) and ...

Hearing loss is a common congenital anomaly and there is clear evidence of the benefits of early diagnosis and then treatment. For maximum positive impact, the diagnosis needs to be made as early as ...

Background The diagnostic value of tests used in assessing hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) in children remains controversial. Design A systematic review and meta-analysis with ...

Objective Risk prediction models for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalised children are limited, especially in upper-middle-income countries. We developed a PaEdiatric Pneumonia Severity ...

Why did you do this work?Child poverty in the UK increased from 3.6 million in 2010/11 to 4.3 million in 2022/23, with larger families affected most. 1 Poverty is linked to worse child health outcomes ...