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Eat, sleep and console model of care for managing infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome: a meta-analysis of observational studies
Importance Vigilant clinical assessment is the key to preventing complications, including death, in infants at risk of neonatal withdrawal syndrome. The eat, sleep and console (ESC) is proposed as an ...
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Public health burden of magnet ingestion in the UK
Child Health Paediatric Emergency Medicine Paediatrics The reported incidence of magnet ingestion in children across the world is increasing at an alarming rate over the past two decades. 1 2 Neville ...
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Changing contexts of child health: an assessment of unmet physical, psychological and social needs of children with common chronic childhood illness
Background We assessed the biopsychosocial needs and key health drivers among children living with a common chronic illness, as baseline for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a child health ...
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Priorities for child health research across the UK and Ireland
Background The General and Adolescent Paediatric Research Network in the UK and Ireland (GAPRUKI) was established in 2016. The aims of GAPRUKI are to unite general paediatricians around the UK and ...
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Wales Infants’ and childreN’s Genome Service (WINGS): providing rapid genetic diagnoses for unwell children
Introduction This study reviews the first 3 years of delivery of the first National Health Service (NHS)-commissioned trio rapid whole genome sequencing (rWGS) service for acutely unwell infants and ...
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Investigation and management of hypercalcaemia in children
1 Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, ...
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Pharmacological management of abnormal tone and movement in cerebral palsy
Background The evidence base to guide the pharmacological management of tone and abnormal movements in cerebral palsy (CP) is limited, as is an understanding of routine clinical practice in the UK. We ...
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Consensus recommendations for the assessment and management of idiopathic intracranial hypertension in children and young people
5 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK Background Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a potentially disabling condition. There is a lack of evidence and ...
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Effect of Gaviscon Infant on gastro-oesophageal reflux in infants assessed by combined intraluminal impedance/pH
Background: Gaviscon Infant (GI) has been recommended for gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) in infants. Its efficacy has not been examined with a physiologically appropriate denominator to define the ...
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RAS-MAPK pathway disorders: important causes of congenital heart disease, feeding difficulties, developmental delay and short stature
1 Genetic Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK 2 Genetic and ...
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Are tablets a practical source of protein substitute in phenylketonuria?
Background: A phenylalanine-free amino acid based protein substitute is necessary to provide the major source of protein in phenylketonuria (PKU). Protein substitutes in PKU are usually given as ...