BACKGROUND Routine hospital statistics for England appear to overestimate use of children's wards and include numbers of well newborn babies staying with their mothers after delivery ("well babies"). AIM To review trends in use of children's wards excluding data on newborn babies. METHODS We reviewed routine, published, and age stratified data requested from the Department of Health to iden...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of dual-strain probiotics on the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), mortality and nosocomial bloodstream infections (BSI) in preterm infants in German neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). DESIGN A multi-center interrupted time series analysis. SETTING 44 German NICUs with routine use of dual-strain probiotics on neonatal ward level. PATIENT...