Few tools are available to pediatricians for tracking and monitoring disability status in children.
We describe the conceptual basis and pilot use of the Functional Independence Measure …

The reliability of the Functional Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM) was examined
in 37 non‐disabled children and 30 children with disabilities, from 12 to 76 months of age. …

Our purpose was to describe functional outcomes in essential activities in preschool, school‐age,
and adolescent children who were born very (<32 weeks gestation) and extremely (<…

… However, because the number for the item indicating television as a sleep aide item was
so small, this television variable was not included in the logistic regression analysis. The total …

We studied 26 children with inborn errors of urea synthesis who survived neonatal
hyperammonemic coma. There was a 92 per cent one-year survival rate associated with nitrogen-…

… Our study was also limited by the relatively small sample size, which makes the findings
less generalizable to other groups of children with ADHD. As noted above, the small sample …

ContextTandem mass spectrometry now allows newborn screening for more than 20 biochemical
genetic disorders. Questions about the effectiveness and risks of expanded newborn …

… These studies reported on a small number of children with multiple disabilities. Pharyngeal
phase abnormalities were often influenced by the texture of food swallowed. These studies …

The question of the potential teratogenicity of cocaine has been raised by the increasing
frequency of its abuse in the United States. In previous studies, an increased incidence has …

OBJECTIVE: To determine if multiple doses of erythropoietin (Epo) administered with
hypothermia improve neuroradiographic and short-term outcomes of newborns with hypoxic-…