OBJECTIVE To compare 3 methods of clinical assessment of jaundice in newborns by home health nurses. DESIGN Prospective clinical trial. SETTING Homes of newborns living within 10 miles of a 340-bed community hospital where they were delivered. PARTICIPANTS Home health nurses and newborn patients (< or =2 weeks old). INTERVENTIONS The nurses examined the newborns and documented whether t...

Jaundice and bilirubin levels varied widely in 85 children with favism. Low bilirubin levels (less than 2 mg/100 ml) with clinically undetectable jaundice were seen in 34 (40%), mild jaundice in 32 (38%), moderate in 16 (19%), and severe (greater than 8 mg/100 ml) in 3 (4%). Bilirubin levels were unrelated to the severity of anaemia or to reticulocytosis. The absence of bilirubinaemia and jaund...

iatrogenic Jaundice "This is largely synonymous with drug jaundice. Drugs can produce jaundice in two ^ays. Firstly they can produce haemolysis and so overload a normal liver. Secondly they may produce actual liver disease, either by obstructing the intrahepatic biliary Canaliculi or by injuring the liver cells. In the second group obstructive jaundice is Produced by drugs such as methyl testos...