PRÉCIS 

A brief digest of the November issue

PERSPECTIVES 

The CHALICE rule: ready for prime time?
R Forsyth

Paediatricians subspecialising in cardiology: clinical governance, maintenance of expertise, and training
J L Gibbs

Frequency of metabolic disorders: more than one needle in the haystack
P J Lee and P Cook

ATOMS 

Atoms
Howard Bauchner

Leading articles  The link between short sleep duration and obesity: we should recommend more sleep to prevent obesity
S Taheri

ORIGINAL ARTICLES 

Derivation of the children’s head injury algorithm for the prediction of important clinical events decision rule for head injury in children
J Dunning, J Patrick Daly, J-P Lomas, F Lecky, J Batchelor, K Mackway-Jones on behalf of the children’s head injury algorithm for the prediction of important clinical events (CHALICE) study group

Managed Care Network for the assessment of cardiac problems in children in a district general hospital: a working model
K Pushparajah, D Garvie, A Hickey, and S A Qureshi

The incidence of inherited metabolic disorders in the West Midlands, UK
S Sanderson, A Green, M A Preece, and H Burton

Active surveillance for tuberculosis in Wales: 1996–2003
B Fathoala, M R Evans, I A Campbell, J Sastry, and M Alfaham

Tacrolimus ointment does not affect the immediate response to vaccination, the generation of immune memory, or humoral and cell-mediated immunity in children
T Hofman, N Cranswick, P Kuna, A Boznanski, T Latos, M Gold, D F Murrell, K Gebauer, U Behre, E Machura, J Ólafsson, Z Szalai on behalf of the International Tacrolimus Ointment Study Group

Trends in imported childhood malaria in the UK:1999–2003
S Ladhani, R J Aibara, M Blaze, V Smith, and D V Shingadia

SIDS risk factors and factors associated with prone sleeping in Sweden
B Alm, P Möllborg, L Erdes, R Pettersson, N Åberg, G Norvenius, and G Wennergren

A qualitative investigation into the levers and barriers to weight loss in children: opinions of obese children
J Murtagh, R Dixey, and M Rudolf

SHORT REPORTS 

Pneumothorax in cystic fibrosis: a retrospective case series
G M Hafen, O C Ukoumunne, and P J Robinson

CASE REPORTS 

Calcified occlusion of the right coronary artery in Kawasaki disease: evidence of myocardial ischaemia using cardiac technetium-99m-tetrofosmin perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography
J Beamish, M J O’Connell, A El Khuffash, D F Duff, and C J McMahon

JOURNAL/WATCH 

Journal Watch Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

REVIEWS 

Immunisation of premature infants
J Bonhoeffer, C-A Siegrist, and P T Heath

Alternative approaches to conventional antiepileptic drugs in the management of paediatric epilepsy
R Kneen and R E Appleton

When home is where the stress is: expanding the dimensions of housing that influence asthma morbidity
M Sandel and R J Wright

LETTERS 

Can we identify abusive bites on children?
A Kemp, S A Maguire, J Sibert, R Frost, C Adams, and M Mann

BOOK REVIEWS 

Paediatric clinical research manual
A Brooke

Basic mechanisms of pediatric respiratory disease, 2nd edition
R Isba

Middlesex
S Fountain-Polley

ADHD: the facts
A M Kelly

Mother’s view
Janet Gibson

LUCINA 

MISCELLANEA 

Giant cerebral arteriovenous malformation
M O Tebruegge and A Shrivastava

Menkes disease mimicking non-accidental injury
F Bacopoulou, L Henderson, and S G Philip

Idiopathic infantile arterial calcification presenting as fatal hypertensive cardiomyopathy
D P Inwald, S Yen Ho, M N Shepherd, and P E F Daubeney

Classification of childhood vasculitides

Non-invasive testing for severe fetal anaemia