RCPCH Conference Collection 2024

The ADC & BMJ Paediatrics Open 2024 RCPCH conference collection gathers together the most popular articles from the past year across ADC, ADC: Education & Practice, ADC: Fetal & Neonatal & BMJ Paediatrics Open. The conference is taking place 25 March - 27 March 2024 at the ICC Birmingham. This year's theme is 'Building a bright future together'. Tell us your favourite paper from the collection by tagging @ADC_BMJ and @BMJ_PO on X. #RCPCH24

ADC

Child mask mandates for COVID-19: a systematic review Association between breastfeeding duration and educational achievement in England: results from the Millennium Cohort Study Inflammatory bowel disease: recent developments Randomised controlled trials in child and adolescent health in 2023 Diagnosing early-onset neonatal sepsis in low-resource settings: development of a multivariable prediction model Graves disease: moving forwards

Are children with prolonged fever at a higher risk for serious illness? A prospective observational study Developmental and behavioural outcomes at 2 years in babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic: communication concerns in a pandemic birth cohort Children presenting with diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis to Emergency Departments during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and Ireland: an international retrospective observational study Emergency and perioperative management of adrenal insufficiency in children and young people: British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes consensus guidance

ADC: Fetal & Neonatal Edition

Caffeine to prevent intermittent hypoxaemia in late preterm infants: randomised controlled dosage trial Early initiation of antibiotic therapy and short-term outcomes in preterm infants: a single-centre retrospective cohort analysis

Two-year outcomes following a randomised platelet transfusion trial in preterm infants National priority setting partnership using a Delphi consensus process to develop neonatal research questions suitable for practice-changing randomised trials in the UK

ADC: Education & Practice Edition

Fifteen-minute consultation: Guide to communicating with children and young people Digital health education: the need for a digitally ready workforce

How to use the Bristol Stool Chart in childhood constipation How to use lumbar puncture manometry in children

BMJ Paediatrics Open

Adenoid hypertrophy in children: a narrative review of pathogenesis and clinical relevance Neonatal health care costs of very preterm babies in England: a retrospective analysis of a national birth cohort

Skin-to-skin contact in the delivery room for very preterm infants: a randomised clinical trial Risk factors for early language delay in children within a minority ethnic, bilingual, deprived environment (Born in Bradford’s Better Start): a UK community birth cohort study