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Maria Valentina Abate, Ingeborg Barisic, Michele Santoro, Alessio Coi, Joachim Tan, Ester Garne, Maria Loane, Ljubica Odak, Elisa Ballardini, Clara Cavero-Carbonell ...
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Emergency department discharge practices for children with acute wheeze and asthma: a survey of discharge practice and review of safety netting instructions in the UK and Ireland

Objective Recovery from acute wheeze and asthma attacks should be supported with safety netting, including treatment advice. We evaluated emergency department (ED) discharge practices for acute ...
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Methadone toxicity in children

Background and aim Poisoning and deaths linked to methadone have risen since the beginning of methadone treatment.1 2 Methadone poisoning is common among children.3 The aim of this review was to ...
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Causes of death in children with insulin dependent diabetes 1990–96

BACKGROUND Mortality rates in children with insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM) in the UK are unknown and the causes of death not well documented. AIM To determine the mortality rate and causes of death ...
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Parental absence in early childhood and onset of smoking and alcohol consumption before adolescence

Correspondence to Dr Afshin Zilanawala, Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK; afshin.zilanawala{at}ucl.ac.uk ...