Newborn falls in-hospital: time to address the issue.

Newborn falls in-hospital are considered rare and mostly accidental. Few studies are available explaining such accidents. The number of cases may be under reported by parents because of the inevitable sense of guilt they experience.

Smoothing things over: the transition from pediatric to adult care for kidney transplant recipients.

Background: Transition is a planned movement of adolescents with chronic physical and medical conditions from child-centered to adult-oriented healthcare systems as opposed to a purely administrative event.

Objective: To evaluate the transition of pediatric kidney transplant recipients to the adult service at Guy's Hospital between 2000 and 2001 as compared with best practice from the literature, and to establish client satisfaction with the process.

Design: Data were collected by means of a retrospective review of case notes, clinician interview, and a patient satisfaction questionnaire, and analyzed by a single reviewer.