Perspectives:

Demand weaning: infants’ answer to professionals’ dilemmas

Martin P Ward Platt

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 79-80. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.150011

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Wayward words and watchful waiting: should clinicians be more proactive for the preschooler with uncomplicated expressive language delay?

Anne E O’Hare

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 80-82. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.148528

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Atoms:

Atoms

Howard Bauchner

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: i.

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Original articles:

Growth and growth biomarker changes after adenotonsillectomy: systematic review and meta-analysis

K A Bonuck, K Freeman, and J Henderson

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 83-91.
Published Online First: 6 August 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.141192

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Spray bacteriotherapy decreases middle ear fluid in children with secretory otitis media

S Skovbjerg, K Roos, S E Holm, E Grahn Håkansson, F Nowrouzian, M Ivarsson, I Adlerberth, and A E Wold

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 92-98.
Published Online First: 19 August 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.137414

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Pre-existing disease is associated with a significantly higher risk of death in severe respiratory syncytial virus infection

K Thorburn

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 99-103.
Published Online First: 24 July 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.139188

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Emotional, behavioural and social correlates of missing values for BMI

H Fonseca, M Gaspar de Matos, A Guerra, and J Gomes-Pedro

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 104-109.
Published Online First: 18 September 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.139915

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Parent based language intervention for 2-year-old children with specific expressive language delay: a randomised controlled trial

A Buschmann, B Jooss, A Rupp, F Feldhusen, J Pietz, and H Philippi

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 110-116.
Published Online First: 14 August 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.141572

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Currently recommended treatments of childhood constipation are not evidence based: a systematic literature review on the effect of laxative treatment and dietary measures

M A M Pijpers, M M Tabbers, M A Benninga, and M Y Berger

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 117-131.
Published Online First: 19 August 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2007.127233

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Prevention and treatment of renal disease in Henoch-Schönlein purpura: a systematic review

W Chartapisak, S L Opastiraku, N S Willis, J C Craig, and E M Hodson

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 132-137.
Published Online First: 13 August 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.141820

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The relationship between maternal depression, in-home violence and use of physical punishment: what is the role of child behaviour?

M Silverstein, M Augustyn, R Young, and B Zuckerman

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 138-143.
Published Online First: 11 September 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2007.128595

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Outcomes of febrile children without localising signs after pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

E Waddle and R Jhaveri

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 144-147.
Published Online First: 6 June 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2007.130583

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Short reports:

Infant feeding, solid foods and hospitalisation in the first 8 months after birth

M A Quigley, Y J Kelly, and A Sacker

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 148-150.
Published Online First: 1 October 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.146126

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Delayed diagnosis in type 1 diabetes mellitus

P C B Sundaram, E Day, and J M W Kirk

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 151-152.
Published Online First: 18 June 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2007.133405

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Case reports:

Out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation in three adolescents

A Khoury and I Shavit

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 153-155. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.139550

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Archimedes:

Towards evidence based medicine for paediatricians

Bob Phillips

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 165.

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QUESTION 1

B Hudson and C Powell

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 165-167. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.145482

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QUESTION 2

H C Taekema, PR Landham, and I Maconochie

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 167-168. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.152264

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QUESTION 3

Fyeza Hasan

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 168-169. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.153437

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Reviews:

Macrogol (polyethylene glycol) laxatives in children with functional constipation and faecal impaction: a systematic review

D Candy and J Belsey

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 156-160.
Published Online First: 19 November 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2007.128769

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Minimising medication errors in children

I C K Wong, L Y L Wong, and N E Cranswick

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 161-164.
Published Online First: 1 October 2008. doi:10.1136/adc.2007.116442

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PostScript:

Isotonic maintenance fluids do not produce hypernatraemia

M L Moritz and C Ayus

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 170. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.147108

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Role of post-mortem investigations in determining the cause of sudden unexpected death in infancy

G Ottaviani

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 170-171.

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Case reports of factitious illness are unlikely to be published in the UK

M G Coulthard and C de San Lazaro

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 171. doi:10.1136/adc.2008.147272

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Bile-stained vomiting in neonates

C J Morley and T J Cole

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 171.

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Miscellanea:

The WAGR syndrome, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and obesity

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 109.

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Continuous glucose monitoring

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 150.

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Lucina

Arch Dis Child 2009; 94: 172.

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