OBJECTIVE To determine whether suboptimal management in hospital could contribute to poor outcome in children admitted with meningococcal disease. DESIGN Case-control study of childhood deaths from meningococcal disease, comparing hospital care in fatal and non-fatal cases. SETTING National statistics and hospital records. SUBJECTS All children under 17 years who died from meningococcal d...

Severe nutritional disorders, including kwashiorkor, marasmus, and rickets, were seen in four children and were due to parental food faddism, which should perhaps be regarded as a form of child abuse. All disorders were corrected with more normal diets and vitamin supplements. In view of the potentially serious consequences of restricted diets being fed to children, families at risk should be i...

BACKGROUND Concurrent epidemics of HIV, depression, alcohol abuse, and partner violence threaten maternal and child health (MCH) in South Africa. Although home visiting has been repeatedly demonstrated efficacious in research evaluations, efficacy disappears when programs are scaled broadly. In this cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT), we examine whether the benefits of ongoing accountabi...

250 www.pccmjournal.org March 2014 • Volume 15 • Number 3 Objectives: A change in our children’s hospital coverage model to providing full-time in-house supervision by intensivists allowed us to evaluate the impact of this change on patient safety outcomes. Our aim was to determine whether in-house attending coverage influenced the prevalence and outcomes of pediatric code events. Design: We co...

As an effort to control and handle COVID-19, the government has issued a school from home (SFH) policy. This policy forced children stay at carry out learning using digital media. situation impact on increasing use of media involvement parents in children's significantly. study explores Surabaya during pandemic period how can assist these research uses qualitative methods with in-depth intervie...

Reading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development and strengthens parent-child relationships at a critical time in child development, which, in turn, builds language, literacy, and social-emotional skills that last a lifetime. Pediatric providers have a unique opportunity to encourage parents to engage in this important and enjoyable activity with their chil...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether periodic supportive supervision after a training course improved the quality of paediatric hospital care in Kyrgyzstan, where inappropriate care was common but in-hospital postnatal mortality was low. METHODS In a cluster, randomized, parallel-group trial, 10 public hospitals were allocated to a 4-day World Health Organization (WHO) course on hospital care for c...

for the vast majority of the iranian m.a. students of tefl, thesis writing is the first individual engagement with research. despite having some pedagogical merits, such an academic activity generally poses some intellectual and affective challenges to such students. during thesis completion, if students are not effectively scaffolded by supervisors and not supported by universities, they are l...

BACKGROUND Realization of the public health benefits of mass drug administration (MDA) for the control of schistosomiasis depends on achieving and maintaining high annual treatment coverage. In Uganda, the uptake of preventive treatment for schistosomiasis among school-age children in 2011 was only 28%. Strategies are needed to increase uptake. METHODS Serial cross-sectional surveys were cond...