1 Paediatric Palliative Care, Helen & Douglas House Hospices, Oxford, UK 2 Clinical Services, Helen & Douglas House Hospices, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Emily Harrop, Consultant in Paediatric ...

The EATERS mnemonic is a novel method for taking an allergy focused clinical history. It provides a degree of certainty for diagnosing food allergy and can be used in both IgE and non IgE mediated ...

This case article takes you on a journey starting with a paediatric patient presenting with sudden-onset lower limb paralysis and paraesthesia. Differential diagnoses, investigations and management ...

Correspondence to Dr Richard J Drew, Department of Microbiology, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK; richard.drew{at}alderhey.nhs.uk Conjunctivitis is a very common ...

The first of this pair of papers outlined what a clinical decision rule is and how one should be created. This section examines how to use a rule, by checking that it is likely to work (examining how ...

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Shared decision-making (SDM) is a collaborative approach to healthcare decision-making that involves patients and healthcare professionals working together to make decisions that are informed by the ...

Precocious puberty has traditionally been defined as the onset of secondary sexual characteristics occurring before age 8 years in girls and 9 years in boys. This earlier onset of puberty may have ...

Correspondence to Dr ES Sen, Department of Paediatric Rheumatology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8BJ, UK; ethan.sen{at}doctors.org.uk Group A streptococcus ...

Learning to communicate effectively with children in clinical interactions can be challenging. This study aimed to determine the extent to which medical students are exposed to children in their daily ...

The ward round represents an important opportunity for all aspects of a patient’s care to be reviewed, including medications. Errors with medications have significant patient safety implications in ...

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