Archives of Disease in Childhood: 106 (2)

Atoms

Highlights from this issue (19 January, 2021) Free
Nick Brown

Editorial

‘I just wanted someone to ask me’: when to ask (about child sexual abuse) (24 November, 2020)
Geoff Debelle, Robin Powell

Leading article

Opening doors: suggested practice for medical professionals for when a child might be close to telling about abuse (24 November, 2020) Free
Ruth Marchant, Jamie Carter, Charlie Fairhurst

Viewpoint

Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic: governments must balance the uncertainty and risks of reopening schools against the clear harms associated with prolonged closure (3 August, 2020)
Russell M Viner, Christopher Bonell, Lesley Drake, Didier Jourdan, Nicolette Davies, Valentina Baltag, John Jerrim, Jenny Proimos, Ara Darzi
Vaccine hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries: potential implications for the COVID-19 response (10 September, 2020)
Sunil Bhopal, Maryke Nielsen
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global child health: joint statement of the International Child Health Group and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (5 October, 2020)
International Child Health Group

Reviews

Stop, think SCORTCH: rethinking the traditional ‘TORCH’ screen in an era of re-emerging syphilis (25 June, 2020)
Justin Penner, Hayley Hernstadt, James Edward Burns, Paul Randell, Hermione Lyall
Empowering children and young people who have asthma (24 July, 2020)
Ian P Sinha, Lynsey Brown, Olivia Fulton, Lucy Gait, Christopher Grime, Claire Hepworth, Andrew Lilley, Morgan Murray, Justus Simba

Global child health

Clinical features to distinguish meningitis among young infants at a rural Kenyan hospital (20 August, 2020)
Christina W Obiero, Neema Mturi, Salim Mwarumba, Moses Ngari, Charles Newton, Michael Boele van Hensbroek, James Alexander Berkley
Bubble CPAP splitting: innovative strategy in resource-limited settings (16 November, 2020)
Akanksha Verma, Rahul Jaiswal, Kirti M Naranje, Girish Gupta, Anita Singh
COVID-19, children and non-communicable diseases: translating evidence into action (13 October, 2020)
Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Marie Hauerslev, Mychelle Farmer, Laura Lewis-Watts

Paediatric emergency medicine

Accuracy of PECARN rule for predicting serious bacterial infection in infants with fever without a source (19 August, 2020)
Roberto Velasco, Borja Gomez, Javier Benito, Santiago Mintegi
Inter-rater reliability of paediatric emergency assessment: physiological and clinical features (28 September, 2020)
Calvin Heal, Sarah Cotterill, Andrew Graeme Rowland, Natalie Garratt, Tony Long, Stephen Brown, Grainne O'Connor, Chloe Rishton, Steve Woby, Damian Roland

This study assesses the inter-rater reliability of the Paediatric Admission Guidance in the Emergency Department (PAGE) score. The PAGE score is an assessment tool currently in development that helps predict hospital admission using components including patient characteristics, vital signs and clinical features, to assist in safe admission and discharge. The authors found good inter-rater reliability among a group of nurses using the tool.

Original research

School absence and achievement in children with isolated orofacial clefts (19 August, 2020)
Kate J Fitzsimons, Scott A Deacon, Lynn P Copley, Min Hae Park, Jibby Medina, Jan H van der Meulen
Extreme prematurity, growth and neurodevelopment at 8 years: a cohort study (3 August, 2020)
Leah Hickey, Alice Burnett, Alicia J Spittle, Gehan Roberts, Peter Anderson, Katherine Lee, Lex W Doyle, Jeanie Ling Yoong Cheong, for the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group
Venipuncture activates the cerebral cortex in children with intellectual disability (7 August, 2020)
Stefano Bembich, Giuliana Morabito, Valentina Simeon, Tamara Strajn, Rosaria Rutigliano, Paola Di Rocco, Gabriele Cont, Francesco Maria Risso, Francesca Peri, Egidio Barbi
Palivizumab’s real-world effectiveness: a population-based study in Ontario, Canada, 1993–2017 (28 August, 2020)
Tiffany Fitzpatrick, James Dayre McNally, Therese A Stukel, Jeffrey C Kwong, Andrew S Wilton, David Fisman, Astrid Guttmann
Achondroplasia Foramen Magnum Score: screening infants for stenosis (3 September, 2020)
Moira S Cheung, Melita Irving, Alessandra Cocca, Rui Santos, Meera Shaunak, Harry Dougherty, Ata Siddiqui, Paul Gringras, Dominic Thompson

Short reports

Consent for babies born following surrogate pregnancies (14 January, 2020)
Heather Sharon Hodgson, Abigail Nye, Fiona Finlay
Hypophosphatasia mimicking hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy: early recognition and management (22 January, 2020)
Aled Picton, Ruchi Nadar, Alexandra Pelivan, Vidya Garikapati, Vrinda Saraff
Clinical guideline for retained button batteries (10 February, 2020)
Rory Houston, Steven Powell, Bruce Jaffray, Stephen Ball

Archimedes

Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians (19 January, 2021)
Bob Phillips
Physiological weight loss in term newborn infants (6 October, 2020)
Victoria Knowles, Phani Kiran Yajamanyam
Could laryngeal mask airways be used to stabilise neonates at birth by those with limited intubation experience? (15 October, 2020)
Julie Aitken, Joyce O'Shea

Voices

Women and children first? Gender equity in paediatric medicine (20 April, 2019)
Tessa Davis, Henry Goldstein, Dani Hall, Ben Lawton, Grace Sze Yin Leo, Rie Yoshida, Andrew Tagg
Living with Fragile X syndrome (16 May, 2019)

PostScript

Letter: More autism? Audit of the diagnosis in Scottish children (27 March, 2020)
Michael Andrew Colvin, Leanne Brennan, Kirsty Hogg, Helen Taylor, Kathleen Skinner
Letter: Longitudinal outcomes of well, term infants who present with persistent hyperthyrotropinaemia (27 April, 2020)
Sze May Ng, Nancy Katkat, Tal Oryan, Omokayode M Ayoade, Mahreen Aleem
Letter: An Italian paediatric department at the time of Coronavirus: a resident’s point of view (27 April, 2020)
Marta Cognigni

Miscellanea

Archivist: Let’s add in some clindamycin (19 January, 2021)
Archivist: What happens to children after an episode of concussion? (19 January, 2021)
Images in paediatrics: Neonatal systemic lupus erythematosus syndrome presenting as 4 months of ‘persistent ringworm’ (7 February, 2020)
Fahim Patel, Arani Sridhar
Images in paediatrics: Autoimmune pancreatitis in a child: a challenging diagnosis (13 November, 2019)
Graham King, Emer O'Toole, Kevin O'Hare, Barbara M. Ryan, Basil Elnazir, Shoana Quinn
Images in paediatrics: Subdural and subarachnoid empyema as a complication of an acute meningococcal meningitis (19 October, 2019)
Gonzalo Solís-García, Juan Vicente Darriba Valles, Oscar Lucas Gil de Sagredo Del Corral, María Vázquez López, Alejandra Aguado, Jesús Saavedra-Lozano
Images in paediatrics: Idiopathic calcinosis in a paediatric patient (5 September, 2019)
Edoardo Marrani, Lisa Gamalero, Giovanni Beltrami, Chiara Caporalini, Gabriele Simonini, Rolando Cimaz, Teresa Giani
Lucina: Highlights from the literature (19 January, 2021)

Electronic pages

Letter: Lockdown: more domestic accidents than COVID-19 in children (2 June, 2020)
Silvia Bressan, Elisa Gallo, Francesca Tirelli, Dario Gregori, Liviana Da Dalt
Letter: Paediatric treatment trials for COVID-19 are an ethical imperative (9 June, 2020)
Amanda Gwee, Alison Boast, Joshua Osowicki, Andrew C Steer, Simon Coghlan
Letter: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the paediatric emergency department attendances in Argentina (18 June, 2020)
Fernando Ferrero, Maria Fabiana Ossorio, Fernando Adrian Torres, Gustavo Debaisi
Letter: Who has been missed? Dramatic decrease in numbers of children seen for child protection assessments during the pandemic (18 June, 2020)
Sunil Bhopal, Annaliese Buckland, Rhona McCrone, Andrew Ian Villis, Stephen Owens
Letter: Is it really time to go back to school? (29 June, 2020)
John WL Puntis
Letter: Delayed access to care and late presentations in children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a snapshot survey of 4075 paediatricians in the UK and Ireland (25 June, 2020) Free
Richard M Lynn, Jacob L Avis, Simon Lenton, Zahin Amin-Chowdhury, Shamez N Ladhani
Letter: Addendum to: Children are not COVID-19 super spreaders: time to go back to school (20 July, 2020)
Alasdair Peter Stuart Munro, Saul N Faust

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February 2021 - Volume 106 - 2

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Editorial

Leading article

Viewpoint

Reviews

Global child health

Paediatric emergency medicine

Original research

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Voices

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February 2021 - Volume 106 - 2

Atoms

Editorial

Leading article

Viewpoint

Reviews

Global child health

Paediatric emergency medicine

Original research

Short reports

Archimedes

Voices

PostScript

Miscellanea

Electronic pages

Issue Information