INTRODUCTION Electronic prescribing systems can improve the quality and safety of healthcare services, but their implementation is not straightforward and may create unexpected change. However, the added complexity of paediatric prescribing (eg, dose calculations, dilutions, manipulations) may pose additional challenges. This study will aim to (1) understand the complex organisational reality o...

342 Revista Científica da Ordem dos Médicos www.actamedicaportuguesa.com ABSTRACT Introduction: Meningococcal infection has a high mortality and morbidity. Recently a new prognostic scoring system was developed for paediatric invasive meningococcal disease, based on platelet count and base excess – base excess and platelets score. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of...

BACKGROUND Accurate diagnosis and management of hearing loss (HL) is based on valid and accurate ear-specific and frequency-specific information. This is especially relevant as non-optimal hearing amplification as part of early hearing detection and intervention programmes may result in further delays in the speech and language development of children with HL. Audiological measures utilised may...

 Introduction. The quality of primary medical care for children in Poland is unsatisfactory. In the ranking known as 'the European Health Consumer Index', Poland (taking the patient point of view on healthcare quality) is classified on the 27th position out of the 33 possible. The unsolved problems concern inter alia the quality and availability of night paediatric urgent care. OBJECTIVE The ...

Encopresis is often the result of chronic constipation in the majority of paediatric patients. In clinical practice, however, encopresis is also seen without constipation and it is unknown whether these two clinical variants are based on similar or different pathophysiological mechanisms, requiring different therapeutic approaches. We analysed clinical symptoms, colonic transit time (CTT), oroc...

AIM To describe the electrocardiographic (ECG) and echocardiographic manifestations of the paediatric athlete's heart, and examine the impact of age, race and sex on cardiac remodelling responses to competitive sport. DESIGN Systematic review with meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES Six electronic databases were searched to May 2016: MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, CINAHL and SPORTDiscus. ...

Paediatric pulmonology is a relatively young subspeciality of paediatrics that started in the midst of the 20th century. In many countries in Europe, paediatricians took the initiative to start a separate section or department dedicated to paediatric pulmonology. They were all trained paediatricians who recognised the importance of subspecialisation in paediatric pulmonology, as the pulmonary d...

BACKGROUND Students' motives for studying Dentistry have been a subject of interest for years because of the potential for understanding the psychological makeup and subsequent job satisfaction for the dentist. It is also useful in identifying expectations of the profession. This study therefore tried to identify study motives and career preferences of dental students especially with respect to...

Paediatric anaesthesia is a profession that deals with children from all ages, ranging from the extreme premature to the adolescent of 16 years of age; in other words, from neonatology through paediatrics to internal medicine and surgery. This means that the paediatric patient is not a standard patient to be fitted into protocols. Often the problems are related to rare congenital diseases, whic...

Sydenham's chorea (SC) became a well defined nosological entity only during the second half of the nineteenth century. Such progress was promoted by the availability of large clinical series provided by newly founded paediatric hospitals. This paper analyses the demographic and clinical features of patients with chorea admitted to the first British paediatric hospital (the Hospital for Sick Chi...