Paediatric Speciality Practice for the 1990s

Adoption: a forgotten paediatric speciality.

OBJECTIVE To study the medical, emotional, and developmental profile of children being considered for permanent substitute care. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of 100 adoption/permanency medicals. SETTING All children considered by the adoption and permanency panel in Greenwich, south east London, between 1994 and 1998. OUTCOME MEASURES Analysis of medical reports completed using the Bri...

Paediatric home care in the 1990s.

Innovating the practice of medical speciality training

Educational innovations are being introduced into medical speciality training. But how do people who participate in medical speciality training (residents, consultants, programme directors) deal with these innovations? And what effects do educational innovations have according to these people?By addressing these questions, this thesis contributes to the knowledge about the challenging process o...

Confidentiality and paediatric practice.

The 1984 Data Protection Act, which regulates the use of automatically processed personal information, has serious implications for medical practice. In response to the Act the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) set up an interprofessional working group to prepare a draft Code on the confidentiality of personal health information held in the National Health Service, which has been ...

Aging and paediatric practice.

Objectives—To assess relations between the adiposity of children and their parents and to establish whether tracking of adiposity from childhood to adulthood varies according to the parental body mass index (BMI). Methods—Longitudinal data from the 1958 British birth cohort study were used (6540 men and 6207 women). The height and weight of the study subjects weremeasured at 7, 11, 16, 23 (self...