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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2008
Rheumatology 2008 47(6):743-744; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken069
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

EDITORIALS

BSPAR position statement on professionals working in paediatric rheumatology

E. Baildam1 and J. Davidson2

1Department of Rheumatology, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Liverpool and 2Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, UK.

Correspondence to: E. Baildam, Department of Rheumatology, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Alder Hey, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK. E-mail: Eileen.Baildam@RLC.NHS.UK

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‘It seems so obvious it hardly needs to be said: just as children differ from adults in terms of their physical, psychological, intellectual and emotional development, so they differ in their healthcare needs. They experience and see the world differently.

Children are in a constant state of growth and development which creates particular needs and demands which are of a different order from those affecting adult patients.

Their relative physical and emotional immaturity, in comparison with adults, has implications both for the treatment which they receive and the physical environment in which they are cared for’.

Professor Sir Ian Kennedy National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services Core Standards, p. 8.

Earlier this year, the British Society . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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