Table of contents

Child health

• Cohort study: Mandatory gloving in acute care paediatric units associated with decreased risk of hospital-acquired infections (2 September, 2013)

  Gonzalo Bearman
• Ethnography: Parents of British Bangladeshi children undergoing cancer treatment report managing competing knowledge, vigilance, advocacy, balancing work and treatment burden impacts on their lives (12 December, 2013)

  Tony Cassidy
• Cohort study: Prenatal exposure to sodium valproate is associated with increased risk of childhood autism and autistic spectrum disorder (2 September, 2013)

  Amanda Wood
• Cohort study: Excess weight gain in the first 18 months of life is associated with later childhood overweight, obesity and greater arterial wall thickness (17 October, 2013)

  Nicolas Stettler, Madeleine Baumann
• Cohort study: Children of mothers with iodine deficiency during pregnancy are more likely to have lower verbal IQ and reading scores at 8–9 years of age (12 December, 2013)

  Angela M Leung, Gregory A Brent
• Cohort study: Alcohol consumption in early and late pregnancy is associated with poor child reading and writing ability at 8–9 years of age (4 December, 2013)

  Beth Bailey
• Qualitative study—other: Children’s experience of postoperative pain relief: children, parents and nurses use various pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches, particularly distraction (17 October, 2013)

  Joan Simons