Determining severity of illness and undertaking an adequate risk assessment is a fundamental part of acute paediatric practice. This review highlights physiology, communication, heuristics and ...

Correspondence to Dr Montserrat Doukrou, Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 11 floor Tower, 235 Euston Rd, London NW1 2PG, UK; ...

Correspondence to Professor AS Garden, School of Health and Medicine, Centre for Medical Education, Faraday Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LancashireLA1 4YB, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Sebastian Jason Gray, Paediatric Department, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, SP2 8BJ, UK; Sebastian.Gray{at}Salisbury.nhs.uk Safety netting has likely always occurred but ...

RCPCH/NPPG joint standing committee on medicines, best practice consensus guidelines for medication safe paediatric ward rounds, December 2023 (15 August, 2024) ...

A thyroid function test (TFT) is a common investigation, often undertaken by general paediatricians and general practitioners. TFT involves the measurement of serum free thyroxine (fT4) and thyroid ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Paediatric Neurology, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast BT12 6BE, UK; t.chak{at}yahoo.co.uk Creatine kinase (CK) remains an essential tool for ...

Dr H Williams, Departments of Radiology Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; helen.williams{at}bch.nhs.uk Back pain in children and adolescents is probably much less ...

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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 ...