BACKGROUND & AIMS To analyse nutritional risk in hospitalized children and its relationship with clinical outcomes to provide evidence for improved nutritional management. METHODS The investigation involved 1325 consecutively enrolled hospitalized children from Nanjing Children's Hospital. The nutritional risks in the hospitalized children were evaluated using the STRONGkids tool. During hosp...

background: scorpion sting is a public health problem in khuzestan, south-west iran. the aims of the current study were to monitor the hospitalized children, due to scorpion sting, and releasing more clinical and epidemiologic data related to scorpionism in this province. methods: in this retrospective study, the data of scorpion sting victims, among the hospitalized children in abuzar children...

BACKGROUND Hospitalization is a stressful and threatening experience, which can be emotionally devastating to children. Hospital play interventions have been widely used to prepare children for invasive medical procedures and hospitalization. Nevertheless, there is an imperative need for rigorous empirical scrutiny of the effectiveness of hospital play interventions, in particular, using play a...

we aimed to determine the clinical manifestations of tramadol intoxication in children and to find its potential poor prognostic factors. in a retrospective study, from 1363 cases of admitted pediatric poisoning, all tramadol-exposed hospitalized patients younger than 12 years were included in the study. they were hospitalized between march 2010 and april 2012 to the only referral hospital for ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Due to limited availability of data on viral aetiology of acute gastroenteritis in north India, the present study was planned to detect rotavirus, norovirus, sapovirus and astrovirus in stool samples of both in hospitalized and non-hospitalized children less than five years of age presenting with acute gastroenteritis. METHODS A total of 278 stool samples from equal nu...