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    Ethics, governance and consent in the UK: implications for research into the longer-term outcomes of congenital heart defects.
    • Rachel L Knowles,
    • Catherine Bull,
    • Christopher Wren,
    • Carol Dezateux
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 21 September 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.152975
    Fetal cardiac screening; why bother?
    • Gurleen Sharland
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 17 August 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.151225
    Head trauma outcomes of verifiable falls in newborn babies.
    • Caroline Ruddick,
    • Martin P Ward Platt,
    • Camille De San Lazaro
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 7 July 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.143131
    Who is blaming the baby?
    • Colin Peters,
    • Julie-Clare Becher,
    • Andrew J Lyon,
    • Paula Midgley
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 7 May 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.143628
    Evidence-based Child Health – SIGN and NICE
    • Christopher J H Kelnar
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 14 August 2008 doi:10.1136/adc.2007.131607
    Detection of human bocavirus in ill and healthy Spanish children: a 2-year study
    • Maria Luz Garcia Garcia,
    • Cristina Calvo,
    • Francisco Pozo,
    • Pilar Pérez-Brena,
    • Mª Carmen Vazquez,
    • Inmaculada Casas
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 August 2008 doi:10.1136/adc.2007.131045
    Emergency management of anaphylaxis in children and young people: new guidance from the Resuscitation Council (UK)
    • Yincent Tse,
    • George Rylance
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 August 2008 doi:10.1136/adc.2007.120378
    Does atomoxetine increase the risk of aggression and hostility in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
    • Somnath Banerjee,
    • Hani F Ayyash
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 2 May 2008 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.142356
    Does drinking "flat" cola prevent dehydration in children with acute gastroenteritis?
    • Ashley Reece,
    • Michelle Jacobs
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 2 May 2008 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.142521
    Guideline review: atopic eczema in children, NICE
    • J Harry Baumer
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 April 2008 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.139626
    Validity of New Ballard Score till 7th day of postnatal life in moderately preterm neonates
    • Kandasamy Sasidharan,
    • Sourabh Dutta,
    • Anil Narang
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 12 March 2008 doi:10.1136/adc.2007.122564
    Neonatal intrahepatocellular lipid
    • Louise Thomas,
    • Sabita Uthaya,
    • Vimal Vasu,
    • John P McCarthy,
    • Peter McEwan,
    • gavin Hamilton,
    • Jimmy D Bell,
    • Neena Modi
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 11 January 2008 doi:10.1136/adc.2007.127431

Case reports

    Case report: Paediatric non-heart-beating renal transplantation
    • Anusha G Edwards,
    • Hugh McCarthy,
    • Justin D Morgan,
    • Moin A Saleem
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.166942
    Case report: Lipoatrophy with insulin analogues in type I diabetes
    • Amir Babiker,
    • Vipan Datta
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 22 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.183731
    Case report: Multiple brainstem infarctions in a boy caused by angiitis of the basilar artery
    • Masahiro Tsuji,
    • Takuya Tamura,
    • Takeshi Yoshida,
    • Tsunekazu Haruta
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 7 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.173104
    Case report: Oxcarbazepine accelerates cortisol elimination via cytochrome P450 3A4 induction
    • W Högler,
    • S A Wudy,
    • G Luef,
    • M F Hartmann,
    • M Rauchenzauner
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.167361

Editorial

    Editorial: Lest we forget… research ethics in children: perhaps onerous, yet absolutely necessary
    • Joe Brierley,
    • Vic Larcher
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.179762

Global child health

    Global child health: Joint effect of maternal depression and intimate partner violence on increased risk of child death in rural Ethiopia
    • N Deyessa,
    • Y Berhane,
    • M Emmelin,
    • MC Ellsberg,
    • G Kullgren,
    • U Högberg
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.165571

Images in neonatal medicine

    Images in neonatal medicine: Coat hanger appearances of the ribs: a useful diagnostic marker of paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 14
    • S Naik,
    • I K Temple
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.185736

Images in paediatrics

    Images in paediatrics: Childhood melanoma
    • N K Webber,
    • C Healy,
    • E Calonje,
    • O E Dadzie,
    • A M Powell
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 31 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.193375

Leading articles

    Leading article: Mothers, babies and friendly bacteria
    • Lynne M Beattie,
    • Lawrence T Weaver
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.189639
    Leading article: International code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes—three decades later time for hostilities to be replaced by effective national and international governance
    • J S Forsyth
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 26 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.187294
    Press Release
    Leading article: Depression and anxiety in children with CFS/ME: cause or effect?
    • Helen Bould,
    • Glyn Lewis,
    • Alan Emond,
    • Esther Crawley
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 26 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.173161
    Leading article: Drowning and sudden cardiac death
    • D Kenny,
    • R Martin
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.185215

Letter

    Letter: Prescribing in a pandemic: best use of oseltamivir in paediatric intensive care
    • A C Seale,
    • F S Toussaint,
    • A Finn,
    • J I Fraser
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.183806

Miscellania

    Miscellania: Archivist: Features of mitochondrial diseases in children with progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.196071

Original articles

    Original article: Nocturnal hypoventilation: predictors and outcomes in childhood progressive neuromuscular disease
    • Sherri L Katz,
    • Isabelle Gaboury,
    • Krista Keilty,
    • Brenda Banwell,
    • Jiri Vajsar,
    • Peter Anderson,
    • Andy Ni,
    • Ian MacLusky
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 31 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.182709
    Original article: Survey of the use of therapeutic hypothermia post cardiac arrest
    • Barnaby R Scholefield,
    • Heather P Duncan,
    • Kevin P Morris
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176735
    Original article: Heel blood sampling in European neonatal intensive care units: compliance with pain management guidelines
    • Valentina Losacco,
    • Marina Cuttini,
    • Gorm Greisen,
    • Dominique Haumont,
    • Carmen R Pallás-Alonso,
    • Veronique Pierrat,
    • Inga Warren,
    • Bert J Smit,
    • Björn Westrup,
    • Jacques Sizun for the ESF Network
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.186429
    Original article: Accuracy of tympanic and infrared skin thermometers in children
    • B F Paes,
    • K Vermeulen,
    • R M Brohet,
    • T van der Ploeg,
    • J P de Winter
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.185801
    Original article: The association between birth condition and neuropsychological functioning and educational attainment at school age: a cohort study
    • David E Odd,
    • Andrew Whitelaw,
    • David Gunnell,
    • Glyn Lewis
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 12 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176065
    Original article: Correlates of hypertension among urban Asian Indian adolescents
    • Ruchika Goel,
    • Anoop Misra,
    • Sunil K Agarwal,
    • Naval Vikram
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 12 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.162347
    Original article: Seroprevalence of Borrelia IgG antibodies among young Swedish children in relation to reported tick bites, symptoms and previous treatment for Lyme borreliosis: a population-based survey
    • Barbro H Skogman,
    • Christina Ekerfelt,
    • Johnny Ludvigsson,
    • Pia Forsberg
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.183624
    Original article: Health experiences of adolescents with uncontrolled severe asthma
    • Kate Edgecombe,
    • Sue Latter,
    • Sheila Peters,
    • Graham Roberts
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 30 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.171579
    Original article: Distinguishing between bacterial and aseptic meningitis in children: European comparison of two clinical decision rules
    • François Dubos,
    • Bartosz Korczowski,
    • Denizmen A Aygun,
    • Alain Martinot,
    • Cristina Prat,
    • Annick Galetto-Lacour,
    • Juan Casado-Flores,
    • Erdal Taskin,
    • Francis Leclerc,
    • Carlos Rodrigo,
    • Alain Gervaix,
    • Dominique Gendrel,
    • Gérard Bréart,
    • Martin Chalumeau
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 26 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.186056
    Original article: Epidemiology and aetiology of paediatric malpractice claims in France
    • A Najaf-Zadeh,
    • F Dubos,
    • I Pruvost,
    • C Bons-Letouzey,
    • R Amalberti,
    • A Martinot
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 26 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.189209
    Original article: Electrocardiography is a poor screening test to detect left ventricular hypertrophy in children
    • Lucy Killian,
    • John M Simpson,
    • Alexandra Savis,
    • Debbie Rawlins,
    • Manish D Sinha
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.168377
    Original article: Withdrawing feeds from children on long term enteral feeding: factors associated with success and failure
    • Charlotte M Wright,
    • Kathryn H Smith,
    • Jill Morrison
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.179861
    Original article: A retrospective observational study comparing rescue medication use in children on combined versus separate long-acting β-agonists and corticosteroids
    • H Elkout,
    • J S McLay,
    • C R Simpson,
    • P J Helms
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.179069
    Original article: IgE in childhood asthma: relevance of demographic characteristics and polysensitisation
    • M Silvestri,
    • A Pistorio,
    • E Battistini,
    • G A Rossi
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.163667
    Original article: Outcomes following infant listing for cardiac transplantation: the impact of strategies introduced to counteract limited donor availability
    • C Irving,
    • G Parry,
    • J Cassidy,
    • A Hasan,
    • M Griselli,
    • R Kirk
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.171348
    Original article: Autism, language and communication in children with sex chromosome trisomies
    • Dorothy V M Bishop,
    • Patricia A Jacobs,
    • Katherine Lachlan,
    • Diana Wellesley,
    • Angela Barnicoat,
    • Patricia A Boyd,
    • Alan Fryer,
    • Prisca Middlemiss,
    • Sarah Smithson,
    • Kay Metcalfe,
    • Deborah Shears,
    • Victoria Leggett,
    • Kate Nation,
    • Gaia Scerif
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.179747
    Original article: How children die: classifying child deaths
    • G A Pearson,
    • M Ward-Platt,
    • D Kelly
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.177089
    Original article: Variation in recording of child maltreatment in administrative records of hospital admissions for injury in England, 1997–2009
    • Arturo González-Izquierdo,
    • Jenny Woodman,
    • Lynn Copley,
    • Jan van der Meulen,
    • Marian Brandon,
    • Deborah Hodes,
    • Fiona Lecky,
    • Ruth Gilbert
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 20 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180216
    Original article: Evidence that children with special needs all require visual assessment
    • Meghomala Das,
    • Katherine Spowart,
    • Stephanie Crossley,
    • Gordon N Dutton
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 20 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.159053
    Original article: The fifth UK paediatric diabetes services survey: meeting guidelines and recommendations?
    • Charlotte Gosden,
    • Julie A Edge,
    • Richard I G Holt,
    • June James,
    • Bridget Turner,
    • Peter Winocour,
    • Chris Walton,
    • Dinesh Nagi,
    • Rhys Williams,
    • Krystyna Matyka
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176925
    Original article: The epidemiology of oro-nasal haemorrhage and suffocation in infants admitted to hospital in Scotland over 10 years
    • N McIntosh,
    • J Y Q Mok,
    • A Margerison,
    • L Armstrong,
    • A Mathews,
    • A K Robertson,
    • J Street,
    • S Sweeney,
    • J Chalmers
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.170563
    Original article: Management and outcome of vein of Galen malformation
    • N McSweeney,
    • S Brew,
    • S Bhate,
    • T Cox,
    • D J Roebuck,
    • V Ganesan
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.177584
    Original article: Case–control analysis of paternal age and trisomic anomalies
    • E De Souza,
    • J K Morris,
    • EUROCAT Working Group
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176438
    Original article: Clinical presentation of childhood neuroborreliosis; neurological examination may be normal
    • Dorien M Broekhuijsen-van Henten,
    • Kees P J Braun,
    • Tom F W Wolfs
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176529
    Original article: One-third of the new paediatric patients with sickle cell disease in The Netherlands are immigrants and do not benefit from neonatal screening
    • M Peters,
    • K Fijnvandraat,
    • X W van den Tweel,
    • F G Garre,
    • P C Giordano,
    • J P van Wouwe,
    • R R Pereira,
    • P H Verkerk
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.165290
    Original article: Skeletal morbidity in children receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
    • M Elmantaser,
    • G Stewart,
    • D Young,
    • R Duncan,
    • B Gibson,
    • S F Ahmed
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.172528
    Original article: Application of the CHALICE clinical prediction rule for intracranial injury in children outside the UK: impact on head CT rate
    • Louise Crowe,
    • Vicki Anderson,
    • Franz E Babl
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.174854
    Original article: Outcome of goal-directed non-invasive ventilation and mechanical insufflation/exsufflation in spinal muscular atrophy type I
    • M Chatwin,
    • A Bush,
    • A K Simonds
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.177832
    Original article: Attitudes and practices of physicians regarding physician-assisted dying in minors
    • Geert Pousset,
    • Freddy Mortier,
    • Johan Bilsen,
    • Joachim Cohen,
    • Luc Deliens
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.182139
    Original article: Risk of skin cancer after neonatal phototherapy: retrospective cohort study
    • David H Brewster,
    • Janet S Tucker,
    • Michael Fleming,
    • Carole Morris,
    • Diane L Stockton,
    • David J Lloyd,
    • Sohinee Bhattacharya,
    • James W T Chalmers
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.179275
    Original article: Fatness leads to inactivity, but inactivity does not lead to fatness: a longitudinal study in children (EarlyBird 45)
    • B S Metcalf,
    • J Hosking,
    • A N Jeffery,
    • L D Voss,
    • W Henley,
    • T J Wilkin
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.175927
    Original article: What do research ethics committees say about applications to conduct research involving children?
    • E Angell,
    • H Biggs,
    • F Gahleitner,
    • M Dixon-Woods
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.172395
    Original article: Reported care giver strategies for improving drinking water for young children
    • John D McLennan,
    • Ashley Farrelly
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 22 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.179648
    Original article: Determinants of outcomes following acute child encephalopathy and encephalitis: pivotal effect of early and delayed cooling
    • G Kawano,
    • O Iwata,
    • S Iwata,
    • K Kawano,
    • K Obu,
    • I Kuki,
    • H Rinka,
    • M Shiomi,
    • H Yamanouchi,
    • T Kakuma,
    • S Takashima,
    • T Matsuishi
    • , the Research Network for Acute Encephalopathy in Childhood
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 16 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180554
    Original article: Randomised controlled trial of thermostatic mixer valves in reducing bath hot tap water temperature in families with young children in social housing
    • D Kendrick,
    • J Stewart,
    • S Smith,
    • C Coupland,
    • N Hopkins,
    • L Groom,
    • E Towner,
    • M Hayes,
    • D Gibson,
    • J Ryan,
    • G O'Donnell,
    • D Radford,
    • C Phillips,
    • R Murphy
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 16 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.175059
    Original article: Parental comprehension and satisfaction in informed consent in paediatric clinical trials: a prospective study on childhood leukaemia
    • H Chappuy,
    • A Baruchel,
    • G Leverger,
    • C Oudot,
    • B Brethon,
    • S Haouy,
    • A Auvrignon,
    • D Davous,
    • F Doz,
    • J M Tréluyer
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 15 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180695
    Original article: Low quality of reporting adverse drug reactions in paediatric randomised controlled trials
    • Tjalling W de Vries,
    • Eric N van Roon
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 15 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.175562
    Original article: Why children die: avoidable factors associated with child deaths
    • G A Pearson,
    • M Ward-Platt,
    • A Harnden,
    • D Kelly
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 8 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.177071
    Original article: The significance of bruising in infants—a forensic postmortem study
    • A I Ingham,
    • N E Langlois,
    • R W Byard
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.177469
    Original article: Genital gonorrhoea in children: determining the source and mode of infection
    • S Whaitiri,
    • P Kelly
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.162909
    Original article: Specific oral tolerance induction in food allergic children: is oral desensitisation more effective than allergen avoidance?: A meta-analysis of published RCTs
    • H R Fisher,
    • G du Toit,
    • G Lack
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.172460
    Original article: A RCT of peer-mentoring for first-time mothers in socially disadvantaged areas (The MOMENTS Study)
    • M E Cupples,
    • M C Stewart,
    • A Percy,
    • P Hepper,
    • C Murphy,
    • H L Halliday
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.167387
    Original article: Errors in emergency feeds in inherited metabolic disorders: a randomised controlled trial of three preparation methods
    • H Gokmen-Ozel,
    • A Daly,
    • P Davies,
    • S Chahal,
    • A MacDonald
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.161711
    Original article: The potential for non-heart beating organ donation within a paediatric intensive care unit
    • J Fraser,
    • I Thomas,
    • R Fish,
    • A Gill,
    • J Wilmott,
    • J Morgan
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.177931
    Original article: An objective study of acid reflux and cough in children using an ambulatory pHmetry–cough logger
    • A B Chang,
    • F L Connor,
    • H L Petsky,
    • M M Eastburn,
    • P J Lewindon,
    • C Hall,
    • S J Wilson,
    • P H Katelaris
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.177733
    Original article: Enhanced surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia in children in the UK and Ireland
    • A P Johnson,
    • M Sharland,
    • C M Goodall,
    • R Blackburn,
    • A M Kearns,
    • R Gilbert,
    • T L Lamagni,
    • A Charlett,
    • M Ganner,
    • R Hill,
    • B Cookson,
    • D Livermore,
    • J Wilson,
    • R Cunney,
    • A Rossney,
    • G Duckworth
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.162537
    Original article: Validation of a laboratory risk index score for the identification of severe bacterial infection in children with fever without source
    • Annick Galetto-Lacour,
    • Samuel A Zamora,
    • Barbara Andreola,
    • Silvia Bressan,
    • Laurence Lacroix,
    • Liviana Da Dalt,
    • Alain Gervaix
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176800
    Original article: Paediatric primary care in Europe: variation between countries
    • Diego van Esso,
    • Stefano del Torso,
    • Adamos Hadjipanayis,
    • Armand Biver,
    • Elke Jaeger-Roman,
    • Bjorn Wettergren,
    • Alf Nicholson,
    • and the members of the Primary–Secondary Working Group (PSWG) of the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP)
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 19 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.178459
    Original article: Psychometric profile of children with auditory processing disorder and children with dyslexia
    • Piers Dawes,
    • Dorothy V M Bishop
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 19 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.170118
    Original article: Declining prevalence of cystic fibrosis since the introduction of newborn screening
    • John Massie,
    • Lisette Curnow,
    • Lydia Gaffney,
    • John Carlin,
    • Ivan Francis
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 19 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.172916
    Original article: Treatment of severe childhood constipation with restorative proctocolectomy
    • Deepti Asipu,
    • Bruce Jaffray
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.172973
    Original article: Growth of Belgian and Norwegian children compared to the WHO growth standards: prevalence below −2 and >2 SD and the effect of breastfeeding
    • P B Júlíusson,
    • M Roelants,
    • K Hoppenbrouwers,
    • R Hauspie,
    • R Bjerknes
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 30 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.166157
    Original article: The stability of the diagnosis of developmental disability between ages 2 and 8 in a geographic cohort of very preterm children born in 1997
    • G Roberts,
    • P J Anderson,
    • L W Doyle,
    • the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 14 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.160283

Original articles

    Original article: Hospital Admission Medication Reconciliation in Medically Complex Children, an Observational Study
    • Bryan L Stone,
    • Sabrina Boehme,
    • Michael B. Mundorff,
    • Christopher G. Maloney,
    • Rajendu Srivastava
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 30 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.167528
    Original article: Responding to Unexpected Infant Deaths: Experience in One English Region
    • Peter Sidebotham,
    • Peter Blair,
    • Carol Evason Coombe,
    • Margaret Edmond,
    • Ellen Heckstall-Smith,
    • Peter Fleming
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 29 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.167619
    Original article: Disclosure of Medical Error to Parents and Paediatric Patients
    • Anne G Matlow,
    • Leslie Moody,
    • jeremy Friedman,
    • Ronald Laxer,
    • Polly Stevens,
    • Cristina Goia
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 29 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.163097
    Original article: Modelling early recovery patterns after paediatric traumatic brain injury
    • Rob J Forsyth,
    • Cynthia F Salorio,
    • James R Christensen
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 29 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.147926
    Original article: Enhanced surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia in children in the UK and Ireland
    • Alan P Johnson,
    • Mike Sharland,
    • Catherine Goodall,
    • Ruth Blackburn,
    • Angela Kearns,
    • Ruth Gilbert,
    • Theresa Lamagni,
    • Andre Charlett,
    • Mark Ganner,
    • Robert Hill,
    • Barry Cookson,
    • David Livermore,
    • Julie Wilson,
    • Robert Cunney,
    • Angela Rossney,
    • Georgia Duckworth
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 11 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.162537
    Original article: Could CT-scan avoid unnecessary flexible bronchoscopy in children with active pulmonary tuberculosis ? A retrospective study
    • Kevin Arlaud,
    • Guillaume Gorincour,
    • Julien Bouvenot,
    • Hervé Dutau,
    • Jean-Christophe Dubus
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 11 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.151639
    Original article: Anger, depression and anxiety associated with endothelial function in childhood and adolescence
    • Walter Osika,
    • Scott M Montgomery,
    • Frida Dangardt,
    • Peter Wahrborg,
    • Li Ming Gan,
    • Eva Tideman,
    • Peter Friberg
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 11 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.152777
    Original article: Errors in Emergency Feeds in Inherited Metabolic Disorders: a Randomised Controlled Trial of Three Preparation Methods
    • Hulya Gokmen Ozel,
    • Anne Daly,
    • Paul Davies,
    • Satnam Chahal,
    • Anita MacDonald
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 8 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.161711
    Original article: Swine flu: what parents need to know
    • Robert H Scott-Jupp
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 7 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.175448

Perspective

    Perspective: The importance of rare diseases: from the gene to society
    • John A Dodge,
    • Tamara Chigladze,
    • Jean Donadieu,
    • Zachi Grossman,
    • Feliciano Ramos,
    • Angelo Serlicorni,
    • Liesbeth Siderius,
    • Constantinos J Stefanidis,
    • Velibor Tasic,
    • Arunas Valiulis,
    • Jola Wierzba
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 12 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.193664
    Perspective: Paediatric primary care in Europe: variation between countries
    • Terence Stephenson
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 30 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.184788
    Perspective: Recognising severe infection: in hoc signo vinces?
    • D R O'Donnell
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 26 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.189308
    Perspective: Should we promote the tumbler test?
    • David Mant,
    • Ann Van den Bruel
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 26 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.191510
    Perspective: Preventable but no strategy: vitamin D deficiency in the UK
    • Justin H Davies,
    • Nicholas J Shaw
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.191627
    Perspective: Adolescent immunisation: the next big thing?
    • Adam Finn,
    • Ed Clarke,
    • Julie Mytton
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.192070
    Perspective: Treating patients not numbers: the benefit and burden of lowering TSH newborn screening cut-offs
    • Heiko Krude,
    • Oliver Blankenstein
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.174466
    Perspective: Do researchers know what they are doing?
    • P D Singleton
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 16 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.181636
    Perspective: Surgical management of severe chronic constipation
    • G S Clayden,
    • T Adeyinka,
    • D Kufeji,
    • A S Keshtgar
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 7 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180802

PostScript

    PostScript: Letters: Frenulectomy – the child has rights!
    • N S G Mercer
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 31 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.196501
    PostScript: Letters: Compliance with NICE guidelines for urinary tract infections: a survey among the paediatric trainees of the London Deanery
    • Sheetal Bhojani,
    • Jayanta Banerjee,
    • Deborah Bird,
    • V Nerminathan
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 31 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.196725
    PostScript: Letters: Which antibiotic first in meningococcal disease? A national survey
    • L Hudson,
    • N Tickner,
    • P Salt
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180398
    PostScript: Letters: Coeliac disease and type 1 diabetes: 7 years experience versus NICE guidance 2009
    • Amir Babiker,
    • M A Morris,
    • Vipan Datta
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.195800
    PostScript: Letters: The provision of cardiology services in a non-cardiac paediatric intensive care unit setting
    • S Thyagarajan,
    • A Chavan,
    • A Al-Sabbagh,
    • S Latifi,
    • A W Kelsall
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.170720
    PostScript: Letters: Peanut oil and peanut allergy, foes or folks?
    • M H K Ho,
    • S Lee,
    • W H S Wong,
    • Y Lau
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.190637
    PostScript: Letters: Diagnostic performance of interferon γ may be site specific
    • Oscar M P Jolobe
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 16 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.188771
    PostScript: Letters: Vitamin D and physical fitness in Qatari girls
    • S Racinais,
    • B Hamilton,
    • C K Li,
    • J Grantham
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 16 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.163238

Postscript

    Postscript: Letters: Knowledge of Panton–Valentine leukocidin–associated Staphylococcus aureus infections among paediatric registrars in England
    • H R Freeman,
    • F A Hutchings,
    • S C Marriage
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.184655
    Postscript: Book review: Book review
    • Laura Hole
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180885
    Postscript: Letters: European Medicines Agency withdrawal for sibutramine
    • J Galhardo,
    • N Davis,
    • S Matthai,
    • J P Shield
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.190959
    Postscript: Book review: Textbooks of Paediatrics
    • Robert L Boon
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 7 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180927
    Postscript: Book review: 100 Cases in paediatrics
    • David R James
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 7 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180819
    Postscript: Book review: Paediatric exercise science and medicine (2nd edition)
    • Dave Watkins
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180851

Reviews

    Review: Children's access to treatment for epilepsy: experience from the Lao People's Democratic Republic
    • Hubert Barennes,
    • Khouanheuane Sengkhamyong,
    • Emercia M Sambany,
    • Paulin N Koffi,
    • Phetvongsinh Chivorakul,
    • Gwenaelle Empis,
    • Sébastien Clavel,
    • Silaphet Somphavong,
    • Nengyang Wangkou,
    • Christian Rajaonarivo,
    • Aina Harimanana
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 31 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.181255
    Review: Update on the causes, investigation and management of empyema in childhood
    • Woolf Walker,
    • Robert Wheeler,
    • Julian Legg
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.165357
    Review: Epigenetics and child health: basic principles
    • A Groom,
    • H R Elliott,
    • N D Embleton,
    • C L Relton
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.165712
    Review: Energy expenditure, nutrition and growth
    • A E Wiskin,
    • J H Davies,
    • S A Wootton,
    • R M Beattie
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 20 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.158303
    Review: The evidence-base for complementary medicine in children: a critical overview of systematic reviews
    • Katherine Hunt,
    • Edzard Ernst
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.179036
    Review: Review of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
    • H R Freeman,
    • A V Ramanan
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176610
    Review: Period problems: disorders of menstruation in adolescents
    • A Peacock,
    • N S Alvi,
    • T Mushtaq
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.160853
    Review: Promoting research for children
    • Neena Modi
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.178160
    Review: Less invasive autopsy: an evidenced based approach
    • Sudhin Thayyil
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.165704
    Review: Treatment of difficult epilepsy
    • A McTague,
    • R Appleton
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 19 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.174557
    Review: The neurodevelopmental sequelae of childhood leukaemia and its treatment
    • P Temming,
    • MEM Jenney
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 19 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.153809
    Review: Quality of life and disease-specific functioning of patients with anorectal malformations or Hirschsprung's disease: a review
    • E E Hartman,
    • F J Oort,
    • D C Aronson,
    • M A Sprangers
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2007.118133
    Review: Conceptual issues related to the construction of prescriptive standards for the evaluation of postnatal growth of preterm infants
    • J Villar,
    • H E Knight,
    • M de Onis,
    • E Bertino,
    • G Gilli,
    • A T Papageorghiou,
    • L Cheikh Ismail,
    • F C Barros,
    • Z A Bhutta
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.175067
    Review: Transition to adult services for children and young people with palliative care needs: a systematic review
    • M Doug,
    • Y Adi,
    • J Williams,
    • M Paul,
    • D Kelly,
    • R Petchey,
    • Y H Carter
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 30 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.163931
    Review: How should Paediatricians assess Gillick competence?
    • Victor F Larcher,
    • Anna Hutchinson
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 29 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.148676
    Review: Advanced neonatal nurse practitioners in the workforce: a review of the evidence to date
    • S L Smith,
    • M A Hall
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.168435
    Review: Implementation of “the consensus statement for the standard of care in spinal muscular atrophy” when applied to infants with severe type 1 SMA in the UK
    • H Roper,
    • R Quinlivan
    • , on Behalf of Workshop Participants
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 8 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.166512

Reviews

    Review: Subclinical hypothyroidism in childhood
    • MJ O'Grady,
    • D Cody
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 22 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.181800
    Review: Helping children sleep
    • Barbara C Galland,
    • Edwin A Mitchell
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 19 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.162974

Short reports

    Short report: Mycophenolate mofetil treatment in children and adolescents with lupus
    • Ina Kazyra,
    • Clarissa Pilkington,
    • Stephen D Marks,
    • Kjell Tullus
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 31 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.178608
    Short report: Serotype-specific pneumococcal antibody concentrations in children treated for acute leukaemia
    • Soonie R Patel,
    • Jessica Bate,
    • Ray Borrow,
    • Paul T Heath
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 12 August 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176271
    Short report: Portacaths are safe for long-term regular blood transfusion in children with sickle cell anaemia
    • Jack L Bartram,
    • Sandra O'Driscoll,
    • Austin G Kulasekararaj,
    • Susan E Height,
    • Moira Dick,
    • Shailesh Patel,
    • David C Rees
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.173856
    Short report: Place of death and palliative care following discharge from paediatric intensive care units
    • Lorna K Fraser,
    • Michael Miller,
    • Elizabeth S Draper,
    • Patricia A McKinney,
    • Roger C Parslow
    • , on behalf of the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 6 July 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.178269
    Short report: The TSH threshold in neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism: a variable solution
    • C Colón,
    • J R Alonso-Fernández
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.189340
    Short report: Recent trends and clinical features of childhood vitamin D deficiency presenting to a children's hospital in Glasgow
    • S F Ahmed,
    • C Franey,
    • H McDevitt,
    • L Somerville,
    • S Butler,
    • P Galloway,
    • L Reynolds,
    • M G Shaikh,
    • A M Wallace
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 28 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.173195
    Short report: Thyroid function at diagnosis of type I diabetes
    • J Joseph,
    • V Saroha,
    • H Payne,
    • P Paul,
    • M Didi,
    • D Isherwood,
    • J Blair
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 24 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.168799
    Short report: Constipation in children: an epidemiological study in Sri Lanka using Rome III criteria
    • Shaman Rajindrajith,
    • Niranga Manjuri Devanarayana,
    • Chandralatha Adhikari,
    • Waruni Pannala,
    • Marc A Benninga
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 23 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.173716
    Short report: Childhood optic neuritis clinical features and outcome
    • Michael Absoud,
    • Carole Cummins,
    • Nivedita Desai,
    • Artemis Gika,
    • Niamh McSweeney,
    • Pinki Munot,
    • Cheryl Hemingway,
    • Ming Lim,
    • Ken K Nischal,
    • Evangeline Wassmer
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 16 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.175422
    Short report: Childcare use and inequalities in breastfeeding: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
    • A Pearce,
    • L Li,
    • J Abbas,
    • B Ferguson,
    • H Graham,
    • C Law,
    • the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 7 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.177337
    Press Release
    Short report: Autism spectrum disorder diagnostic assessments: improvements since publication of the National Autism Plan for Children
    • E Palmer,
    • C Ketteridge,
    • J R Parr,
    • G Baird,
    • A Le Couteur
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.172825
    Short report: Use of home oxygen for children in England and Wales
    • R A Primhak,
    • B Hicks,
    • N J Shaw,
    • G C Donaldson,
    • I M Balfour-Lynn
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180653
    Short report: Recognising haemorrhagic rash in children with fever: a survey of parents' knowledge
    • M Aurel,
    • F Dubos,
    • B Motte,
    • I Pruvost,
    • F Leclerc,
    • A Martinot
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 3 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.180174
    Short report: How paediatricians can prepare for revalidation
    • Alistair Thomson,
    • Sarah Fellows
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 19 April 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.181412

Short reports

    Short report: Mortality from 1 to 16–18 years in bilateral cerebral palsy
    • Gillian Baird,
    • Elizabeth Allen,
    • David Scrutton,
    • Adrienne Knight,
    • Anne McNee,
    • Elspeth Will,
    • Diana Elbourne
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 15 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.172841
    Short report: Assessment of intravenous immunoglobulin non-responders in Kawasaki disease
    • Ja-Young Hwang,
    • Kyung-Yil Lee,
    • Jung-Woo Rhim,
    • You-Sook Youn,
    • Jin-Hee Oh,
    • Ji-Whan Han,
    • Joon-Sung Lee,
    • David Burgner
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 15 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.184101
    Short report: Doctors' knowledge of tissue donation in children
    • Dora Wood,
    • Fiona Finlay
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.166363
    Short report: UK incidence of achalasia: an 11-year national epidemiological study
    • M Marlais,
    • J R Fishman,
    • J M E Fell,
    • M J Haddad,
    • D J Rawat
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.171975
    Short report: Episodic dyscontrol syndrome
    • Amy McTague,
    • Richard Appleton
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 1 June 2010 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.171850
    Short report: Pandemic (H1N1) 2009: a clinical spectrum in the general paediatric population
    • Penelope Jane Larcombe,
    • Susan Evelyn Moloney,
    • Peter Alan Schmidt
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 10 November 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.176859
    Short report: Can actigraphy measure sleep fragmentation in children?
    • D M O'Driscoll,
    • A M Foster,
    • M J Davey,
    • G M Nixon,
    • R S C Horne
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 22 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.166561
    Short report: Adherence to safety guidelines on paediatric procedural sedation: the results of a nationwide survey under general paediatricians in The Netherlands
    • P L J M Leroy,
    • F H M Nieman,
    • H E Blokland-Loggers,
    • D M Schipper,
    • L J I Zimmermann,
    • J T A Knape
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 29 September 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2009.165647

Short report

    Short report: Is varicella vaccination required for children with Inherited Metabolic Disorders?
    • M Varghese,
    • M Cafferkey,
    • M O'Regan,
    • AA Monavari,
    • E P Treacy
    Arch Dis Child Published Online First: 21 October 2009 doi:10.1136/adc.2008.147934

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