Studies in term and late preterm infants have found that TcB measurements from covered areas (TcB-C) during phototherapy (PHT) ... A total of 19 infants were enrolled in the study, with a mean gestational age of 26 ± 2 weeks and mean weight 827 ± 127& ... In this prospective observational study, an opaque patch was placed on the back of an ELBW infant prior to initiation of PHT. ... Studies in larger cohorts may be needed to further substantiate these findings. In the future, we suggest measuring TcB and TSB ...

Fifty-eight studies reported on referral rate, 8 on LTFU rate, and 35 on both. Only 15 studies defined LTFU. Substantial ... Studies were excluded if results were only available for one risk condition, for each ear, or for < 100 infants, or if ... Twelve of fourteen studies that evaluated screening method showed lower referral rates with aABR compared to TEOAE for well ... Studies investigating LTFU reported lower rates for programmes that had audiologist involvement, did not require fees for step ...

We performed a retrospective cohort study to investigate preliminary outcomes of all children eligible for HAART at ... and hemoglobin were not predicators of mortality in our cohort. Fifty-two percent of the cohort had at least one HIV-positive ... The median age at HAART initiation was 5.7 years (range 0.3-15.4). Median follow-up time of the cohort after HAART initiation ... Eighty-nine percent of the cohort (n = 132) reported ≤ 2 missed doses during any given treatment month (> 95%adherence). ...

This is a qualitative study based on 12 semi-structured interviews with four midwives and nine doctors who carry out child ... The aim of this study is to investigate clinical barriers and facilitators when introducing standardised child records with ... Previous studies have indicated a need for increased psychosocial focus on children and their families to improve childrens ... a retrospective cohort study of GP records. BJGP Open. 2020;4(1):bjgpopen20X101011. ...

Post-hoc analysis of a cohort from prospective randomized cross-over studies. Seven tertiary care neonatal intensive care units ... This study shows that the majority of episodes preterm infants spent in SpO2 extremes are of short duration regardless of ... This is a post-hoc analysis of a cohort from prospective multicenter randomized cross-over studies [7,8,9,10]. ... One study supports these considerations [15].. We evaluated one A-FiO2 system and the findings of this study should be ...

... a pilot birth cohort study in the Japan Environment and Childrens Study cohort Numerous studies suggest that sex steroids ... Late preterm birth and growth trajectories during childhood: a linked retrospective cohort study Evidence suggests that ... Early studies claimed that early congenital syphilitic (CS) nephropathy was rare, and systematic studies about this disease are ... This study aimed to identify early clin... Authors: Bei-Cyuan Guo, Yin-Ting Chen, Yu-Jun Chang, Chun-Yu Chen, Wen-Ya Lin and ...

The study is based on The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), a population-based cohort study conducted by ... Thus, the purpose of this study was to increase our knowledge of the characteristics of infants with a history of colic ... compared to infants without, and to study how infant colic is associated with the development of child temperament and sleep ... From: Infant colic, young childrens temperament and sleep in a population based longitudinal cohort study ...

The study findings indicated a two-factor solution for both the adolescent and parent sample as follows: a) child maltreatment ... Data were obtained from the Well-Being and Experiences Study, survey data of adolescents aged 14 to 17 years (n = 1002) and ... Adverse childhood experiences are associated with the risk of lung cancer: a prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2010; ... Interestingly, many of the studies in this area continue to use the original list of 10 ACEs [16,17,18,19,20]. Other studies ...

Studies assessing infant growth report that preeclampsia-exposed infants have lower weight, length and BMI at 2 years than ... Further research is required to account for these variables in larger cohorts born at term, to help elucidate the independent ... This narrative review of 23 epidemiological and basic science studies assessed the measurement and impact of preeclampsia ... Postpartum physiology, psychology and paediatric follow up study (P4 Study) - Study protocol. Pregnancy Hypertension. 2016;6(4 ...

Yamagata Z, Maeda T, Anme T, Sadato N. Overview of the Japan Childrens Study 2004-2009; cohort study of early childhood ... Strategies behind the establishment of a developmental cohort study in the Tottori City. J Epidemiol. 2010;20 Suppl 2:S404-6. ... AIO designed the study, collected and analyzed data, and drafted the manuscript. ET helped to conceive the study and reviewed ... In keeping with the mixed definitions, previous studies have shown divergent results regarding age gaps in KK. One study showed ...

This study evaluated the predictive value of blood lactate levels at admission and determined the cut-off values for predicting ... Our study was conducted in a large mixed cohort of critically ill children. Blood samples were prospectively collected for ... A multicenter study is necessary to confirm our findings.. A third limitation of the study is that during the blood collection ... Our results might be biased by the fact that we conducted a single-center study. In our study, 77% of the children had an ...

A nationwide cohort study was conducted for children born in Taiwan during 2004-2011 and follow-up till age 4 to 11 years old ... The objective of this study was to compare the incidence rate and cumulative incidence of severe diseases among urban children ... Cox proportional hazards model (multivariable) was used to examine differences among the four study groups. There were 682,982 ... From: Association of maternal ethnicity and urbanicity on severe pediatric disease: a nationwide cohort study ...

In the present study, the malignancy-associated cohort received malignancy-directed treatments, HLH-directed treatments, or a ... A retrospective historical cohort study was carried out. Primary HLH was excluded. ... Prospective studies with a randomized controlled design and involving large cohorts of children are warranted to evaluate the ... In the present study, patients with non-malignancy-associated HLH had significantly higher HGB (p = 0.004), ALT (p = 0.002), ...

This was an observational cohort study of infants admitted to our Pediatric Unit with suspected bronchiolitis. A physical ... Aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of lung ultrasonography in the diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis in ... One hundred six infants were studied (average age 71 days). According to our clinical score, 74 infants had mild ... To date, only one study found LUS (Lung Ultrasound) to be a valuable tool in the diagnosis of bronchiolitis. ...

The current study was unable to detect a significant effect of the OBEST application as an adjunct tool to the standard ... Further studies with a larger sample are needed to confirm our findings. The trial was retrospectively registered at the Thai ... The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the OBEST, a new mobile/tablet-based application in reducing weight and ... retrospective cohort study. J Med Internet Res. 2019;7(11):e14458. https://doi.org/10.2196/14458. ...

The Child and Mother Physical Activity Study is a longitudinal study to observe PA development in toddlerhood and examine the ... The study findings will help fill a significant methodological gap in toddler PA measurement and expand the body of knowledge ... The study is designed to refine and validate an accelerometer-based machine learning algorithm for toddler activity recognition ... This study will be one of the first to use longitudinal data to validate a machine learning activity recognition algorithm and ...

The purpose of this study was to compare absenteeism rates among elementary students given access to hand hygiene facilities ... Data were collected and analysed for 773 students reporting 1,886 absences during the study period (1.73% of total school days ... From: Hand hygiene instruction decreases illness-related absenteeism in elementary schools: a prospective cohort study ...

Previous single-centre studies have suggested that long-stay admissions in paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) are ... A comparative two-cohort study of pediatric patients with long term stay in ICUs. Sci Rep. 2021;11(1):4631. ... our study is more generalisable than previous single-centre studies. In this study we focussed on children aged under two years ... Study population. All children aged under two years admitted to National Health Service (NHS) PICUs from 1/1/2008 to 31/12/2018 ...

... and gender-matched children from the general population were recruited to participate in this study from Guizhou Provincial ... This study focused on the evaluation of mental health conditions and their clinical characteristics in Chinese children with ... found that the overall incidence of asthma was 1.94-fold higher in the MDD cohort than in the non-MDD cohort [27]. The study ... The study was a cross-sectional single-centre study, and the findings can only explain the characteristics of the current study ...

This retrospective study included 6 children with choledochal cyst who underwent initial US-guided percutaneous external ... Our detailed analysis of this small cohort suggests that US-guided percutaneous external drainage is technically feasible for ... The purpose of this study was to analyze the outcomes of the combination of ultrasound (US)-guided percutaneous external ... The normal reference intervals for laboratory results in our study were based on the PRINCE study [21]. Fibrinogen (FIB) level ...

Longitudinal data of 6601 children aged 1 to 15 years were obtained from the Young Lives cohort study. The data were ... In longitudinal studies, appropriate modeling of repeated anthropometric measures can improve the understanding of patterns of ... The objective of this study was to examine the latent change in physical height of children in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and ... The findings of the study revealed that the rates of growth did not remain constant across the time intervals, which indicates ...

In this live birth cohort, mother and infant dyads were followed for 2 years. Data collection was performed at the maternity ... The objective of this study was to identify risk factors for and protective factors against breastfeeding interruption before 2 ... From: Risk factors for and protective factors against breastfeeding interruption before 2 years: a birth cohort study ...

Among the study infants the median gestational age and weight at birth were 32 weeks (range 28-35 weeks) and 1250 g(range 850- ... Among the survivors (132), we identified 111 infant records for this study. Relevant data was entered in STATA for analysis. ... Baseline cohort characteristics are shown in Table 1. Table 1 Comparison of Baseline characteristics and outcomes of study ... Study population. The infants included in this cohort were VLBW (birth weight , 1500 g), had been discharged home with a weight ...

... study in South Africa. HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected exposed infants < 10 weeks of age were identified through Vertical ... and overall study design; SAM developed the cohorts and edited the manuscript; AV developed the cohorts and edited the ... and a parallel observational cohort study. For randomization in the CHER study, baseline CD4 had to be ≥ 25% [4]. A small ... A small number of HIV-infected infants with CD4% below 25% were eligible for the concurrent cohort study and were therefore ...

All infants born in the study area since September 2006 were included in the study. Data on immunization history and birth ... The study was conducted in two Nairobi urban informal settlements, Korogocho and Viwandani which hosts the Nairobi Urban Health ... an observational cohort study. Access & Citations. * 6552 Article Accesses. ...

A mixed methods study design was developed consisting of: (1) a qualitative study of parents and health service providers to ... This paper describes the methods of the Watch Me Grow study that aims to maximise accurate early detection of children with ... Data linkage will be used to determine the uptake and representativeness of the study participant group versus non-participants ... The Watch Me Grow study is expected to provide a collaborative opportunity to enhance universal developmental surveillance for ...

... subset of 14 questions was assessed for test-retest reliability in 30 parents/carers of children in the Lililwan Project cohort ... prevalence study, conducted in the remote Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia. One objective was to develop and assess test- ... This procedure was followed for the entire Lililwan FASD prevalence study cohort. For example, accurate information about ... STROBE guidelines for reporting observational studies were used [34].. Ethics approval. Ethics approval for this study was ...

A number of previous studies have failed to show benefit of pharmaceutical treatment in respect to length of stay, reduction in ... Descriptive statistics will be utilised to report on the baseline characteristics of the total study cohort, as well as by site ... The study design utilises a composite primary end-point of treatment failure, which has previously been used in a RCT of HFNC ... A pilot study in 61 infants with bronchiolitis using a flow rate of 2 L/kg/min showed that HFNC therapy can be safely delivered ...

A cross-sectional retrospective cohort study was conducted in 138 pediatric epilepsy patients who received anticonvulsants from ... In this study, we aimed to identify risk factors related to hypovitaminosis D in pediatric epilepsy patients in Thailand. ... Our study reports the high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in pediatric epilepsy patients in Thailand despite being located in ... Multiple studies have shown that adult epilepsy patients can exhibit vitamin D deficiency. However, there are few reports ...

We conducted a descriptive survey study in a pediatric tertiary care hospital. Our survey was guided by validated decisional ... several cohort studies have identified a positive association between parental decisional conflict and decision regret when ... The study sponsors had no involvement in the study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of ... We conducted a descriptive study using a self-administered survey. Our study was approved by the Childrens Hospital of Eastern ...