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Original articles

• Mortality with congenital heart defects in England and Wales, 1959–2009: exploring technological change through period and birth cohort analysis (29 June, 2012) Free

  Rachel L Knowles, Catherine Bull, Christopher Wren, Carol Dezateux
• Tracheostomy in children admitted to paediatric intensive care (19 July, 2012)

  Dora Wood, Philip McShane, Peter Davis
• The short Synacthen test: a questionnaire survey of current usage (11 July, 2012)

  Charlotte Jane Elder, Pooja Sachdev, Neil Peter Wright
• Enteroviral meningitis without pleocytosis in children (19 July, 2012)

  Ki Wook Yun, Eun Hwa Choi, Doo Sung Cheon, Jina Lee, Chang Won Choi, Hee Hwang, Beyong Il Kim, Kyoung Un Park, Sung Sup Park, Hoan Jong Lee
• Pain and behaviour changes in children following surgery (17 July, 2012)

  Nina Mary Power, Richard F Howard, Angie M Wade, Linda S Franck
• Puberty is associated with increased deterioration of renal function in patients with CKD: data from the ItalKid Project (25 July, 2012)

  Gianluigi Ardissino, Sara Testa, Valeria Daccò, Fabio Paglialonga, Sara Viganò, Cristina Felice-Civitillo, Francesco Battaglino, Alberto Bettinelli, Andrea Bordugo, Valeria Cecchetti, Salvatore De Pascale, Angela La Manna, Salvatore Li Volti, Silvio Maringhini, Giovanni Montini, Marco Pennesi, Leopoldo Peratoner
• Predicting mortality for paediatric inpatients where malaria is uncommon (7 August, 2012)

  Dana C Clifton, Habib O Ramadhani, Levina J Msuya, Boniface N Njau, Grace D Kinabo, Ann M Buchanan, John A Crump
• Checking pregnancy status in adolescent girls before procedures under general anaesthesia (23 March, 2012)

  J F Donaldson, S J Napier, M Ward-Jones, R A Wheeler, P M Spargo
• Factors influencing infant sleep position: decisions do not differ by SES in African-American families (17 August, 2012)

  David Robida, Rachel Y Moon