PURPOSE OF REVIEW Pediatric liver transplantation is a challenging and exciting field for all healthcare providers involved with children who have end-stage liver disease. Graft and patient survival continue to improve due to improvements in medical, surgical, and anesthetic management, organ availability, immunosuppression, and identification and treatment of postoperative complications. This ...

OBJECTIVES to assess the construct validity and reliability of the Pediatric Patient Classification Instrument. METHODS correlation study developed at a teaching hospital. The classification involved 227 patients, using the pediatric patient classification instrument. The construct validity was assessed through the factor analysis approach and reliability through internal consistency. RESUL...

Patient care consists of integrated domains of care, including medical care, nursing care, and pharmaceutical care. The provision of pharmaceutical care involves not only medication therapy but decisions about medication selection, dosages, routes and methods of administration, medication therapy monitoring, and the provision of medication-related information and counseling to individual patien...

Increasing numbers of children are either overweight or obese, which has a significant negative impact on their current quality of life and their future health. The results of England's National Child Measurement Programme 2012-13 revealed that approximately one fifth of 4- to 5-year-olds and one third of children aged 10 to 11 years were overweight or obese. Emergency departments (EDs) see lar...