Effectiveness of preventive and corrective surgical intervention on hip disorders in severe cerebral palsy: a systematic review.

Purpose: This review presents an overview of the effectiveness of preventive and corrective surgical interventions to treat hip displacement in patients with severe cerebral palsy (CP).

Method: A systematic literature search was applied to identify studies concerning surgical procedures in hip(sub)luxations in severe CP (GMFCS IV and V). A qualitative analysis and a best evidence synthesis were performed for soft tissue surgery and osteotomies.

Palliative hip surgery in severe cerebral palsy: a systematic review.

We performed a systematic review of the results of palliative hip surgery in severe cerebral palsy. Individuals with severe cerebral palsy frequently suffer from pain and other impairments because of dislocation or malformation of the hips. When preventive or reconstructive surgery fails, palliative intervention is performed.

Parental fever attitude and management: influence of parental ethnicity and child's age.

Objective: The objective was to study parental fever management and attitude toward fever from the perspective of the child's ethnicity and age.

Patients And Setting: Children with fever presenting at the pediatric emergency department (PED) of the Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in the period from February 2002 to March 2004.

Design: Prospective observational.

Determination of ethnicity in children in The Netherlands: two methods compared.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to investigate whether names (surnames and the combination of surnames and first names) are adequate to identify Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese children in a Dutch population. Parents visiting the Emergency Department of the Sophia Children's Hospital with their child filled in a questionnaire about their ethnic background, socio-economic factors and cultural factors. Patients' names were classified by students with a Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese (Hindustanic and Creole) background.