Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy; Genetica Medica, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Chirurgiche, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences and Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine, U...

Sujith Samarasinghe is a pediatric hematologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. He is a member of the EBMT SAA working party and his interests include childhood acquired aplastic anemia and bone marrow failure syndromes. Judith Marsh is Professor of Hematology at King’s College Hospital, London and is Chair of the EBMT SAA working party. Her main interests are the pathogenesis and trea...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the current medical school training of internal medicine and pediatric residents in transitioning youth with special health care needs from child-oriented to adult-oriented health care. METHODS: We surveyed internal medicine and pediatric residents to assess their preparedness to transition youth with special health care needs to adult-oriented health care. RESULTS: The sur...

Background: Malnutrition is known to be a poor prognostic factor affecting the outcome of pediatric cancers. The objective this study was assess pre-existing malnutrition in newly diagnosed cancer patients presenting at Pediatric Oncology Department, Children Hospital, PIMS and their number hospital admissions due causes other than chemotherapy.
 Methodology: Data 44 children with analyzed...

. 12.00 background: medication therapy is one of the most complex and high-risk clinical processes that nurses deal with. medication error is the most common type of error that brings about damage and death to patients, especially pediatric ones. however, these errors are preventable. identifying and preventing undesirable events leading to medication errors are the main risk management activit...

We describe an educational strategy aimed at capacity-building of hospital health care professionals in research and management initiated at a pediatric hospital in 2006, and the results obtained eight years after its implementation. Research and Management in Pediatrics (GIP) is an annual 250-hour course combining meetings and off-site assignments delivered through the Hospital's on-line campu...

From the *Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Santiago and the Departments of †Pediatric Gastroenterology and ‡Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital Teresa Herrera, Hospital Juan Canalejo, A Coruña, Spain A bdominal cystic lymphangiomas (ACLs) are rare congenital benign malformations of the lymphatic system that are usually located in the small-bowel mesentery, followed by ...

Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council, Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom; University College London Institute of Child Health, Gene Therapy Laboratory, London, United Kingdom; Lab...

Last year, in 2015, the first ‘Pediatric Issue’ of the Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society was published with the help of Dr. Jung Yul Park, the former Editor-in-Chief, and Dr. Chang Taek Moon, the current Editor-in-Chief. The Issue aims to share updated information on specific topics of pediatric neurosurgery with general neurosurgeons or those in other subspecialties. Due to the limited n...