Background Pediatric emergency department (PED) admissions have risen in recent years,
a trend not justified by the severity of the pathologies presented. The aim of this study is to …

Objective To describe changing use of primary care in relation to use of urgent care and
planned hospital services by children aged less than 15 years in England in the decade …

Background Mental disorders and alcohol misuse are common in families but their effects on
the physical health of children are not known. We investigated the risk of emergency hospital …

Children make up around one‐fifth of all emergency department visits in the USA and UK,
with an increasing trend of emergency admissions requiring intensive care. Anaesthetists …

Objective To develop and validate a parental competence questionnaire for parents of
children seeking care in hospital emergency departments. Methods An instrumental study of …

Background Numbers of urgent short stay admissions (SSAs) of children to UK hospitals are
rising rapidly. This paper reports on experiences of SSAs from the perspective of parents …

Background The number of children with life-limiting conditions in England is known to be
increasing, which has been attributed in part to increased survival times. Consequently …

Objectives To explore the rate of NUPs and associated factors in the PED of the 'Hospital
Universitario y Politécnico La Fe'in Valencia (Spain) using Andersen's Behavioural Model …

Objective To confirm the structure and examine the psychometric properties of the Parental
Competence Questionnaire in the Paediatric Hospital Emergency Setting (ECP-U). Methods …

• In 2015/16 the most deprived children and young people overall were 58 per cent more
likely to go to A&E than the least deprived. A&E attendances for the most deprived infants …