Challenges for children.
This month's issue of Australian Family Physician focuses on communication and diagnostic and management challenges for doctors (and parents) in caring for children. The AFP supplement, 'Evidence based guidelines for the management of three common paediatric conditions' that accompanies this issues provides a clear approach to the management of bronchiolitis, croup and diarrhoea in the general practice setting and gives one page summaries on the particular challenges of those conditions: assessing severity, initial treatment and determining the need for hospitalisation. The health and behavioural issues discussed in the theme articles, such as functional abdominal pain, school refusal, and oppositional defiant behaviour, are certainly difficult for the child's carers, teachers and doctors to cope with and it is easy to lose sight of the fact that these problems are also difficult for the child.
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