Pediatric Patients   

Please see Neonatology for additional information

Websites:   

General Pediatrics

• Caring For Kids (Canadian Paediatric Society)
• GeneralPediatrics.com
• National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality
• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• PediatricEducation.org  
• Pediatrics: Cardiac Disease & Critical Care Medicine (eMedicine)
• Pediatrics: Developmental & Behavioral (eMedicine)
• Pediatrics: General Medicine (eMedicine)
• Pediatrics: Genetics and Metabolic Disease (eMedicine)
• Pediatrics: Surgery (eMedicine)
• The Merck Manual of Pediatrics (Online text)

Children's Hospitals

• BC Children's Hospital
• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) and UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH)
• IWK Health Centre
• The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) (University of Toronto)

Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Pediatric Evidence-Based Care Guidelines (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
• Policy Statements and Practice Guidelines (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Position Statements (Canadian Paediatric Society)
• Practice Parameters (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  

Compounding

• Compounding Recipes Index (The Hospital for Sick Children Compounding Service)
  
• Extemporaneous Compounding Worksheets (Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin)
• Formulations for Compounds (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario)

Evidence-Based Pediatrics

• Evidence-Based Pediatrics (University of Michigan Department of Pediatrics)
• Pediatric Evidence-Based Care Guidelines (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
• PedsCCM Evidence-Based Journal Club (Pediatric Critical Care Medicine)

Medications in Children

• Drug Prescribing in Renal Failure: Dosing Guidelines for Children
• WHO Model Formulary for Children (PDF) (2010)
• WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children (PDF) (2007)
  

Pain

• Centre for Pediatric Pain Research (IWK Health Centre/Dalhousie University)
• Pediatric Pain Letter
• Pediatric Pain Research
• Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood (International Association for the Study of Pain)
  

Palliative Care

• Association for Children's Palliative Care (ACT)
• Canadian Network of Palliative Care for Children (CNPCC)
• Palliative Care for Children (Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition)
• Policy Statement: Palliative Care for Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
  

Patient Decision Aids

•  Patient Decision Aids (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)

Pediatric Drug Trials

• Children and Clinical Studies (NHLBI/NIH/DHHS)
• Medical, Statistical, and Clinical Pharmacology Reviews of Pediatric Studies (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
• Medicines for Children (European Medicines Agency)
• Science and Research: Pediatrics (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

Professional Organizations

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance
• Canadian Paediatric Society
• Children's Health Protection (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
• International Pediatric Association (IPA)
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (National Institutes of Health)
• Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group

• Archives of Disease in Childhood - $
• Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine - $
• BMC Pediatrics
• Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry - $
• Indian Journal of Pediatrics (registration required)
• Indian Pediatrics
• International Pediatrics (In Russian) - $ 
• Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - $
• Journal of Pediatrics - $
• The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics - $
• Pediatric Clinics of North America - $
• Pediatric Drugs - $
• Pediatrics (American Academy of Pediatrics) - $
• Pediatrics in Review (American Academy of Pediatrics) - $

•  2009 Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases, 28th ed. 2009) - $
•  5-Minute Pediatric Consult (Schwartz, 5th ed. 2008) - $
• Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs (Koda-Kimble et al. 9th ed. 2008) - see Chapter 94: Pediatric Considerations, Chapter 95: Neonatal Therapy, Chapter 96: Pediatric Immunizations, Chapter 97: Pediatric Infectious Disease and Chapter 98: Pediatric Nutrition - $
• BNF for Children - $
• Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs for Children and Adolescents (Bezchlibnyk-Butler & Virani, 2nd ed. 2007) - $
•  Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties - $
•  Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics (Hay et al. 19th ed. 2009) - $
• Drug Handbook and Formulary (Hospital for Sick Children) - $
•  Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation (Briggs et al. 8th ed. 2008) - $
• Formulary of Drugs and Dosing Manual (IWK Health Centre) - $
• Helping Parents, Youth, and Teachers Understand Medications for Behavioral and Emotional Problems: A Resource Book of Medication Information Handouts (Dulcan, 3rd ed. 2007) - $
• Lexi Drugs Online: Pediatrics - $
•  Manual of Clinical Problems in Pediatrics (Roberts, 5th ed. 2001) - $
• Manual of Pediatric Therapeutics (Graef et al. 7th ed. 2007) - $
•  Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (36th ed. 2009) - $
• Mental Health Medications for Children: A Primer (Brown et al. 2005) - $
• Micromedex - $
• Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics (Marcdante et al. 6th ed. 2010) - $
•  Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (Kliegman et al. 18th ed. 2007) - $
• Neofax - $
• Neonatal and Pediatric Pharmacology: Therapeutic Principles in Practice (Yaffe & Aranda, 3rd ed. 2004) - $
• Paediatric Drug Handling (Costello et al. 2007) - $
• Pediatric Dosage Handbook (Taketomo et al/Lexi-Comp, 16th ed. 2009) - $
•  Pediatric Injectable Drugs: The Teddy Bear Book (Phelps et al/ASHP, 9th ed. 2010) - $
• Pediatric Toxicology: Diagnosis and Management of the Poisoned Child (Erickson et al. 2004) - $
• Problems in Pediatric Drug Therapy (Pagliaro & Pagliaro/APhA, 4th ed. 2002) - $
•  Rudolph's Pediatrics (Rudolph et al. 22nd ed. 2010) - $
• The Harriet Lane Handbook (Custer et al/Johns Hopkins Hospital, 18th ed. 2009) - $

$ - Resource is not freely available on the Internet
links to electronic resources accessible online for Dal-affiliated persons