Some Common Paediatric Procedures

Common paediatric problems.

Background: Undescended testis, which is a risk factor for testicular cancer, is usually treated surgically, but whether the age at treatment has any effect on the risk is unclear. We studied the relation between the age at treatment for undescended testis and the risk of testicular cancer. Methods: We identified men who underwent orchiopexy for undescended testis in Sweden between 1964 and 199...

Common Paediatric Elbow Injuries

Background Paediatric elbow injuries account for a large proportion of childrens' fractures. Knowledge of common injuries is essential to understanding their assessment and correct management. Methods A selective literature search was performed and personal surgical experiences are reported. Results We have described the assessment and management of the five most common paediatric elbow inj...

Audit of Paediatric Prescriptions for the Common Paediatric Problems

Objectives: To compare the prevailing prescribing practices of paediatricians with minor and major diploma for common paediatric problems. Methodology: It was a Cross sectional study in which 10 % of children visiting the outpatient department of paediatrics, Hamdard university hospital with gastroenteritis and Acute respiratory infections, diagnosed according to UNICEF/ WHO protocol were enrol...

Some Generalized Fwer Procedures

In a multiple testing problem where one is willing to tolerate a few false rejections, procedure controlling the familywise error rate (FWER) can potentially be improved in terms of its ability to detect false null hypotheses by generalizing it to control the k-FWER, the probability of falsely rejecting at least k null hypotheses, for some fixed k > 1. Simes’ test for testing the intersection n...

Are some surgical procedures overpaid?