Hospital Paediatrics

[Hospital safety in paediatrics].

Paediatrians are rendering care nowadays in environments that are increasingly complex and constantly changing. This results in multiple opportunities to cause unintended harm. In the last 15 years the world has been increasingly aware that care must be delivered in such a way as to ensure the maximum safety of the child. Since 1999, when the American Institute of Medicine published its report ...

Hospital paediatrics and child health care.

THE reasons for referral and admission of children to the Ulster Hospital Dundonald (UHD) during October 1979 were documented in order to examine the present day practice of hospital paediatrics. In comparison to 25 years ago many admissions today are not for acute emergencies but for less life threatening conditions which nevertheless are extremely frightening to the parents. The knowledge tha...

Paediatrics at King's College Hospital 50 years ago.

King's College Hospital pioneered British paediatrics. It was the first teaching hospital to have a children's department, which was founded when George Frederic Still was invited to join the consultant staff in 1899. Still was himself a pioneer, being the first doctor to practise full time paediatrics as a separate specialty from adult general medicine. In 1906 he became the first professor of...

'The decline and fall of hospital paediatrics' 23 years after.

Paediatrics

THIS book discusses the management outside hospital of common paediatric problems encountered in the community. The topics selected are well written, informative and expertly illustrated. It helps fill a gap left by the much larger number of hospital based paediatric books and provides relevant information for general practitioners, community based paediatricians and medical students. Although ...