National Autism Plan For Children (NAPC): plan for the identification, assessment, diagnosis and access to early interventions for preschool and primary school-aged children with autism spectrum ...

Introduction of a visual communication toolkit into child protection medical assessments (CPMAs) to ensure that verbal communication is never a barrier to being heard—a multi-agency quality ...

A quality improvement (QI) project was established in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to reduce late-onset sepsis (LOS) through multiple plan–do–study–act (PDSA) cycles focusing on hygiene, ...

Conjunctivitis is a very common presentation to general practitioners and general paediatricians. The investigation of conjunctivitis can be a significant cost to microbiology laboratories due to the ...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence neonatal jaundice guidelines recommend checking the bilirubin level in all infants with visible jaundice. The gold standard for this ...

Abusive head trauma (AHT) affects one in 4000–5000 infants every year and is one of the most serious forms of physical child abuse that has a high associated mortality and morbidity. Differentiating ...

A clinical trial is a research study that prospectively assigns health-related interventions to people (or groups) typically using randomisation to evaluate the effects on health outcomes.

Pulmonary causes of central cyanosis ...

Assessment of tics ...

Indications, efficacy and monitoring requirements of medications used for treatment of chronic tic disorders and TS ...

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Motor Simple: Brief, meaningless, abrupt movement fragments (eg, eye blinking) Complex: Longer, involving more muscle groups, more goal-directed in character (eg, scratching, chewing) ...