Introduction Admissions in a child psychiatry unit can be voluntary or unvoluntary some cases when the patient meets specific criteria. Objectives The aim of our study was to assess frequency and trend over time admissions minors department Razi Hospital between 2011 2019, examine psychiatric diagnoses involuntary minors. Methods We conducted retrospective medical records inpatients admitted ho...

Background and objectivesDiabetes mellitus (DM) increases morbidity mortality in advanced cirrhosis. Information on the prognostic impact of DM compensated cirrhosis is scarce. We aimed to explore effect glycemic control natural history cirrhotic patients.MethodsThis retrospective longitudinal cohort study included Child A/B without or free from decompensation hospitalization>1 year. Data survi...

BACKGROUND Substantial progress has been made in the management of pediatric HIV infection in Ethiopia with the implementation of mother-to-child-prevention programs. Since the introduction of HAART in 2005, mortality among HIV-infected children has reduced while the rate of hospitalization was expected to rise. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to assess predictors of hospitalization i...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether characteristics of neighbourhoods in which children live, such as socio-economic disadvantage, physical infrastructure, programs and services, social disconnection, smoking prevalence, and overcrowding, are related to hospitalization rates from birth to age six, independent of individual-level factors. METHODS We studied a population of 8,504 children born in Sa...

BACKGROUND We assessed variations in hospitalization parameters and costs among asthmatic children in four Nordic countries by geographic location and age groups. METHODS Cross-sectional, county-level aggregate data on asthma-related hospitalizations in 1999, obtained from public national databases for children < 15 years old from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, together with country-sp...

Introduction: According to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number 4, child mortality should be reduced by two thirds by 2015. The focus has been on decreasing neonatal deaths in high-mortality countries. In this study, we assessed the recorded causes of neonatal hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and infant care wards. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was car...

Childhood is a phase that requires much attention from the family and the health service, because family members, besides depending on relatives, are vulnerable to the environment. The objective of this study was to describe the experiences of relatives of children hospitalized in an emergency care service, discuss on how those experiences affect the everyday life of the family and report the a...