Table of contents

Original articles

• Planning for the future: the experience of implementing a children’s day assessment unit in a district general hospital (1 October, 1997)

  David W Beverley, Robin J Ball, Robert A Smith, Michael J Harran, G Mary Durrans, Sally Keenan, Judith Smith, Barbara Durack
• Validation of the paediatric appropriateness evaluation protocol in British practice (1 October, 1997)

  Ursula Werneke, Helen Smith, Iain J Smith, Jeanette Taylor, Roderick MacFaul
• Usefulness of antinuclear antibody testing to screen for rheumatic diseases (1 October, 1997)

  Peter N Malleson, Michaela Sailer, Murray J Mackinnon
• Androgen insensitivity syndrome: a survey of diagnostic procedures and management in the UK (1 October, 1997)

  R M Viner, Y Teoh, D M Williams, M N Patterson, I A Hughes
• Growth in infancy, infant feeding, childhood living conditions, and Helicobacter pylori infection at age 70

  (1 October, 1997)

  C H D Fall, P M Goggin, P Hawtin, D Fine, S Duggleby
• Sialic acid content of infant saliva: comparison of breast fed with formula fed infants (1 October, 1997)

  T H Tram, J C Brand Miller, Y McNeil, P McVeagh
• Diurnal variation in stature: is stretching the answer? (1 October, 1997)

  L D Voss, B J R Bailey
• Central motor conduction time in malnourished children (1 October, 1997)

  S K Tamer, S Misra, S Jaiswal
• Family conflict and slow growth (1 October, 1997)

  Scott M Montgomery, Mel J Bartley, Richard G Wilkinson
• Cough sensitivity in children with asthma, recurrent cough, and cystic fibrosis (1 October, 1997)

  Anne B Chang, Peter D Phelan, Susan M Sawyer, Susanna Del Brocco, Colin F Robertson
• Seat restraint use, previous driving history, and non-fatal injury: quantifying the risks (1 October, 1997)

  K M Venkat Narayan, D Ruta, T Beattie
• Initial evaluation of congenital hypothyroidism: a survey of general paediatricians in East Anglia (1 October, 1997)

  S F Ahmed, N D Barnes, I A Hughes
• An epidemic of acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis in Armenia (1 October, 1997)

  Ashot Sarkissian, Marina Papazian, Gayane Azatian, Nina Arikiants, Ara Babloyan, Ernst Leumann
• Salmonella infection acquired from reptilian pets (1 October, 1997)

  D Sanyal, T Douglas, R Roberts