Table of contents

Original articles

• Structured discharge procedure for children admitted to hospital with acute asthma: a randomised controlled trial of nursing practice (1 February, 1999)

  L J Wesseldine, P McCarthy, M Silverman
• Less diarrhoea but no change in growth: 15 years’ data from three Gambian villages (1 February, 1999)

  E M E Poskitt, T J Cole, R G Whitehead
• Adequacy of standards for assessment of growth and nutritional status in infancy and early childhood (1 February, 1999)

  Shirley Anne H Savage, John J Reilly, Christine A Edwards, John V G A Durnin
• Once daily ceftriaxone and gentamicin for the treatment of febrile neutropenia (1 February, 1999)

  Richard J Tomlinson, Milind Ronghe, Colin Goodbourne, Christine Price, John S Lilleyman, Satya Das, Vaskar Saha
• Viral loads in dual infection with HIV-1 and cytomegalovirus (1 February, 1999)

  Yuri S Boriskin, Mike Sharland, Ruth Dalton, Gill duMont, James C Booth
• Rapid onset transverse myelitis in adolescence: implications for pathogenesis and prognosis (1 February, 1999)

  Jo M Wilmshurst, Matthew C Walker, Keith R E Pohl
• Reduced bone density at completion of chemotherapy for a malignancy (1 February, 1999)

  Pekka Arikoski, Jorma Komulainen, Pekka Riikonen, Jukka S Jurvelin, Raimo Voutilainen, Heikki Kröger
• Gastric emptying and intestinal transit of pancreatic enzyme supplements in cystic fibrosis (1 February, 1999)

  C J Taylor, P G Hillel, S Ghosal, M Frier, S Senior, W B Tindale, N Read
• Haemoglobin and ferritin concentrations in children aged 12 and 18 months (1 February, 1999)

  Andrea Sherriff, Alan Emond, Neil Hawkins, Jean Golding, the ALSPAC Children in Focus Study Team
• Improved prognosis for acquired aplastic anaemia (1 February, 1999)

  L A Pitcher, I M Hann, J P M Evans, P Veys, J M Chessells, D K H Webb
• Capillary refill and core–peripheral temperature gap as indicators of haemodynamic status in paediatric intensive care patients (1 February, 1999)

  Shane M Tibby, Mark Hatherill, Ian A Murdoch
• Growth failure and pituitary function in CHARGE and VATER associations (1 February, 1999)

  V V Khadilkar, F J Cameron, R Stanhope
• Late diagnosis of retinoblastoma in a developing country (1 February, 1999)

  Guillermo Chantada, Adriana Fandiño, Julio Manzitti, Luis Urrutia, Enrique Schvartzman
• Definitive diagnosis of nut allergy (1 February, 1999)

  D Armstrong, G Rylance
• Characteristics of the initial seizure in familial febrile seizures (1 February, 1999)

  M van Stuijvenberg, E van Beijeren, N H Wils, G Derksen-Lubsen, C M van Duijn, H A Moll
• Randomised trial of two pharmacological methods of bowel preparation for day case colonoscopy (1 February, 1999)

  Anne Pinfield, Mark D Stringer
• Mannitol and frusemide in the treatment of diuretic resistant oedema in nephrotic syndrome (1 February, 1999)

  Malcolm A Lewis, Atif Awan
• Modified nasopharyngeal tube for upper airway obstruction (1 February, 1999)

  I B Masters, A B Chang, M Harris, M C O’Neil