OBJECTIVE Cancer is one of the four leading causes of death in children. Its courses of diagnosis and treatment can cause physiologic symptoms and psychological distress that secondarily affect children's quality of life and participation in daily activities. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of play-based occupational therapy on pain, anxiety, and fatigue in hospitalized chil...

OBJECTIVES The primary aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of selected bacterial and viral enteropathogens in children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis and the secondary aim was to characterize the clinical course and the outcome. METHODOLOGY A retrospective audit of children (<15 years) admitted with acute gastroenteritis during January 2008 to October 2010. Stool sample...

BACKGROUND Single-center studies suggest an increasing incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) in children. Our specific aims were to (i) estimate the recent secular trends, (ii) assess the disease burden, and (iii) define the demographics and comorbid conditions of AP in hospitalized children within the United States. METHODS We used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient D...

BACKGROUND In order to estimate the causes of pediatric morbidity in our area, with particular emphasis on diseases with a genetic background, we retrospectively categorized the admissions of all children hospitalized in the Department of Pediatrics of the University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, in the area of Evros, Thrace, Greece over the three year period 2005-2007. Finally, in order...

unintentional drug intoxication is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality in young children. in order to study the epidemiological pattern of childhood drug poisoning in golestan province, all cases diagnosed with poisoning from 1997 to 2002 in the only pediatric hospital in province were recruited. during this period 563 cases of poisoned children were hospitalized in taleqani hospital...

new adherent form of an attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (eaeA+,bfp-) to the intestinal epithelial cells of chicks. To the Editor: Rotavirus is the main cause of severe acute gastroenteritis among children both in developing and in industrialized countries. The incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis in northern Europe is similar to or greater than the estimated incidence of the disease i...

BACKGROUND Although sickle cell disease (SCD) children are highly susceptible to bacterial infections (BIs), there is a dreadful lack of data related to the burden and spectrum of BIs in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the highest affected region with SCD. This study aimed to determine the burden and spectrum of BIs among SCD children hospitalized in a pediatric reference hospital in Cameroon, a SSA ...