With reference to prescription rates, the introduction of the BTS asthma guidelines has resulted in a fall in the amount of syrups prescribed - although there were still 121,000 presciptions in 2006.  There remains a higher amount of combination steroid/long acting beta-agonist inhaler prescription than would be expected.  Here.

In a tertiary care paediatric emergency department in Western Australia, an increased numbers of consultants occurred over the same period as an improvement in a number of parameters including complaints, waiting time and admission rates.  Here.

Of 232 children of Eastern African origin attending an immigrant health clinic in Melbourne, Australia,  87% were vitamin D insufficient and 44% were vitamin D deficient.  Here.

By assessing general practitioner prescriptions, of 75 children on Growth Hormone, 23% missed more than 2 injections per week, with factors such as short duration on growth hormone being associated with poorer concordance.  Here.

Of 232 well children aged 6 months to 5 years attending day care centres in London, 120 (51%) had pneumococcal carriage as determined by nasal swabs. Here.