Table of contents

Original articles

• Changes in clinical indications for community antibiotic prescribing for children in the UK from 1996 to 2006: will the new NICE prescribing guidance on upper respiratory tract infections just be ignored? (9 December, 2008) Free

  P L Thompson, N Spyridis, M Sharland, R E Gilbert, S Saxena, P F Long, A P Johnson, I C K Wong
• Problem behaviours and parenting in preschool children with cystic fibrosis (20 January, 2009)

  C Ward, J Massie, J Glazner, J Sheehan, L Canterford, D Armstrong, A Jaffe, H Hiscock
• Emergency management of children with severe sepsis in the United Kingdom: the results of the Paediatric Intensive Care Society sepsis audit (8 January, 2009)

  D P Inwald, R C Tasker, M J Peters, S Nadel
• Prospective parental consent for autopsy research following sudden unexpected childhood deaths: a successful model (12 March, 2009)

  S Thayyil, N J Robertson, A Scales, M A Weber, T S Jacques, N J Sebire, A M Taylor
• The viral aetiology of croup and recurrent croup (18 September, 2008)

  S R Wall, D Wat, O B Spiller, C M Gelder, S Kotecha, I J M Doull
• Deriving temperature and age appropriate heart rate centiles for children with acute infections (19 November, 2008)

  M Thompson, A Harnden, R Perera, R Mayon-White, L Smith, D McLeod, D Mant
• Effect of adenoidectomy on respiratory function: a randomised prospective study (8 January, 2009)

  P S Mattila, S Hammarén-Malmi, A S Pelkonen, L P Malmberg, M J Mäkelä, H Saxen, J Tarkkanen
• Clinical teaching in paediatrics: understanding perceptions, motives and concerns (5 December, 2008)

  R E Klaber, I Pollock
• Incidence and clinical features of Langerhans cell histiocytosis in the UK and Ireland (5 December, 2008)

  J A Salotti, V Nanduri, M S Pearce, L Parker, R Lynn, K P Windebank
• Long-term skin scarring and orthopaedic sequelae in survivors of meningococcal septic shock (15 January, 2009)

  C M P Buysse, A P Oranje, E Zuidema, J A Hazelzet, W C J Hop, A F Diepstraten, K F M Joosten
• Therapeutic hypothermia can be induced and maintained using either commercial water bottles or a “phase changing material” mattress in a newborn piglet model (20 January, 2009)

  S Iwata, O Iwata, L Olson, A Kapetanakis, T Kato, S Evans, Y Araki, T Kakuma, T Matsuishi, F Setterwall, H Lagercrantz, N J Robertson