'child patients' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you are referring to a group of people under 18 years old who are patients in a medical setting. For example, "The doctors at St. Mary's Children's Hospital specialize in treating child patients."
It was about the attitude of the doctors to their child patients.
She stays with him while he treats his child patients, imagining that her presence will calm them down for him.
She no longer had child patients — there were now nurses in her hospice who specialized in children.
He was later struck off as a doctor for offences relating to dishonesty and failing to act in the best interests of vulnerable child patients.
As a child psychiatrist, I have had my dog come to work and serve as a co-therapist, much to the delight of my adult and child patients.
William became a fine doctor (his short stature gave him a rapport with child patients), and his eldest son, my cousin Tom, was also born with achondroplasia.
I have adult and child patients who still refuse to fly and have nightmares and anxiety related to Sept. 11 -- and that is with continuing psychotherapy or analysis.
Wakefield was subsequently struck off the medical register for offences relating to dishonesty and failing to act in the best interests of vulnerable child patients.
Psychology seems to have taken a long time to catch up with the issue, perhaps because Freud famously dismissed most of his child patients' allegations of abuse by adults as fantasy.
Six child patients said they were abused by Savile after encountering him in the corridors of the hospital wearing only their hospital nightgowns, leaving them with "little defence against inappropriate touching by Savile".
In the 1950s, Dr. Gibson helped to devise the Gibson-Cooke sweat test, working on an observation made by other researchers and by parents, that the skin of child patients with cystic fibrosis was unusually salty.
