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Complementary and alternative medicine use in a large pediatric autism sampleJames M Perrin
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, 100 Cambridge St, 1542, Boston, MA 02114
Pediatrics 130:S77-82. 2012..This study suggests the importance of asking about CAM use in children with ASD, especially those with complex symptoms...
Youth and disability in the 21st century: the 2004 George Armstrong lecture of the Ambulatory Pediatric AssociationJames M Perrin
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ambul Pediatr 4:402-6. 2004
Benefits for employees with children with special needs: findings from the collaborative employee benefit studyJames M Perrin
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:1096-103. 2007..Employers saw value in improving workforce performance and employee retention through expanded benefits and indicated promising opportunities to improve their response to the needs of employees with children with chronic conditions...
The increase of childhood chronic conditions in the United StatesJames M Perrin
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Mass 02114, USA
JAMA 297:2755-9. 2007
Measuring quality of life in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease: psychometric and clinical characteristicsJames M Perrin
Department of Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, USA
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 46:164-71. 2008..To extend development of a pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measure by determining its factor structure and associations of factors with generic HRQoL measures and clinical variables...
A family-centered, community-based system of services for children and youth with special health care needsJames M Perrin
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:933-6. 2007..Previous work by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau to define CYSHCN has had widespread program effects. This article similarly seeks to provide a definition of a system of services...
Benefits for employees with children with ADHD: findings from the Collaborative Employee Benefit StudyJames M Perrin
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, 50 Staniford Street 901, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 26:3-8. 2005..Although employers have limited awareness of ADHD and its potential effect on employees' work, this study identified opportunities to improve both health insurance and other benefits for employees with children with ADHD...
Leadership by example: the Institute of Medicine's view of how Federal Health Care Programs can improve quality of careJames M Perrin
Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Boston, Mass 02114, USA
Ambul Pediatr 3:162-3. 2003
Obesity and the built environment among Massachusetts childrenNicolas M Oreskovic
Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 48:904-12. 2009..The built environment may influence weight status...
Correlates of use of specialty careKaren Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 113:e249-55. 2004..This study examines patterns of specialist use among children and adolescents by presence of a chronic condition or disability, insurance, and sociodemographic characteristics...
Generalist and subspecialist care for children with chronic conditionsJames M Perrin
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston 02114, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:462-9. 2002..To determine, among Medicaid-enrolled children with chronic conditions, associations of indicators of morbidity and expenditures with different patterns of generalist, subspecialist, and pediatric subspecialist use...
Interventions to improve screening and follow-up in primary care: a systematic review of the evidenceJeanne Van Cleave
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Research and Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:269-82. 2012..The American Academy of Pediatrics and other organizations recommend several screening tests as part of preventive care. The proportion of children who are appropriately screened and who receive follow-up care is low...
Impact of type 1 diabetes mellitus on the family is reduced with the medical home, care coordination, and family-centered careMichelle L Katz
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Pediatr 160:861-7. 2012..To examine whether the medical home, care coordination, or family-centered care was associated with less impact of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) on families' work, finances, time, and school attendance...
Intervention with parental smokers in an outpatient pediatric clinic using counseling and nicotine replacementJonathan P Winickoff
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Division of General Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Pediatrics 112:1127-33. 2003..To evaluate the feasibility of implementing a smoking cessation intervention for parents at the time of the pediatric visit...
Evidence for family-centered care for children with special health care needs: a systematic reviewKaren A Kuhlthau
Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Mass, USA
Acad Pediatr 11:136-43. 2011..In this study, we conducted a systematic review of evidence for FCC focusing specifically on family-provider partnership as the activity that constitutes FCC...
The future of health insurance for children with special health care needsPaul W Newacheck
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, 3333 California St, Suite 265, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Pediatrics 123:e940-7. 2009..In this article we assess how well the current system is meeting the insurance needs of children with special health care needs and how emerging trends in health insurance may affect their well-being...
Associations of providers' language and cultural skills with Latino parents' perceptions of well-child careAlexy D Arauz Boudreau
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, and Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Acad Pediatr 10:172-8. 2010..To assess the associations of parent-primary care provider language concordance and providers' self-rated cultural competency items with Latino parent report of well-child care quality...
Built environment and weight disparities among children in high- and low-income townsNicolas M Oreskovic
Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Acad Pediatr 9:315-21. 2009..To assess differences in built environment and child weight, and associations between them in high- and low-income communities...
School absenteeism, health status, and health care utilization among children with asthma: associations with parental chronic diseaseEllen A Lipstein
MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Pediatrics 123:e60-6. 2009....
Electronic health record decision support and quality of care for children with ADHDJohn Patrick T Co
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Mass General Hospital for Children, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Pediatrics 126:239-46. 2010..The objective of this study was to assess the effect of electronic health record (EHR) decision support on physician management and documentation of care for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...
Pharmacy-and diagnosis-based risk adjustment for children with MedicaidKaren Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Med Care 43:1155-9. 2005..Risk adjustment is useful for adjusting health care payments based on patients' health status...
The who, what, and why of risk adjustment: a technology on the cusp of adoptionDavid Blumenthal
Harvard Medical School, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 30:453-73. 2005..For the future of RA in particular, its history suggests the need for health service researchers to consider barriers to use adoption and new analytic technologies as they develop them...
Travel patterns to school among children with asthmaNicolas M Oreskovic
Department of Pediatrics, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital Boston, Massachusets, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 48:632-40. 2009..Active commuting to school provides regular exercise, which can improve asthma symptoms. Little is known about how children with asthma travel to school...
Feasibility of using a tablet computer survey for parental assessment of resident communication skillsJohn Patrick T Co
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Ambul Pediatr 8:375-8. 2008..Despite the existence of several validated patient surveys for communication assessment, no system has been developed for their sustained use in resident assessment...
Medicaid managed care and the unmet need for mental health care among children with special health care needsMichael H Tang
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 901, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Health Serv Res 43:882-900. 2008..To determine the association between Medicaid managed care pediatric behavioral health programs and unmet need for mental health care among children with special health care needs (CSHCN)...
Diagnostic practices for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a national survey of primary care physiciansEugenia Chan
Division of General Pediatrics, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ambul Pediatr 5:201-8. 2005..Although previous studies have shown wide variation in diagnostic practices for ADHD, few recent studies have examined nationally representative samples...
Financial burden for families of children with special health care needsKaren Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Matern Child Health J 9:207-18. 2005..We describe family finance-related burden experienced by families with children with special health care needs (CSHCN). The paper further seeks to describe correlates of family financial burden...
Association between parents' and children's use of oral health servicesInyang A Isong
Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, 50 Staniford St, Suite 901, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Pediatrics 125:502-8. 2010..The objective of this study was to investigate associations between parents' and children's oral health-seeking behaviors among a representative sample of US children...
Health care transition for youth with special health care needsSheila R Bloom
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Adolesc Health 51:213-9. 2012....
How can quality improvement enhance the lives of children with disabilities?James M Perrin
MassGeneral Hospital for Children, USA
Future Child 22:149-68. 2012..Broadening their impact to larger numbers of children with disabilities will require developing measures of functioning and quality of life and targeting interventions and efforts to improve those outcomes...
Health services research for children with disabilitiesJames M Perrin
Harvard Medical School, USA
Milbank Q 80:303-24. 2002..This article reviews recent research on health services relating to children and adolescents with disabilities and outlines a research agenda in clinical and health services for this population in these study areas...
Systematic evidence review of newborn screening and treatment of severe combined immunodeficiencyEllen A Lipstein
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Mass General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 125:e1226-35. 2010..Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a group of disorders that leads to early childhood death as a result of severe infections. Recent research has addressed potential newborn screening for SCID...
Household language, parent developmental concerns, and child risk for developmental disorderKatharine E Zuckerman
Department of Pediatrics, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Acad Pediatr 9:97-105. 2009..Provider elicitation of parent developmental and behavioral (DB) concerns is the foundation of DB surveillance. Language differences may affect whether providers assess parental DB concerns...
Are hospital characteristics associated with parental views of pediatric inpatient care quality?John Patrick T Co
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 111:308-14. 2003....
Dynamics of obesity and chronic health conditions among children and youthJeanne Van Cleave
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
JAMA 303:623-30. 2010..Rates of obesity and other childhood chronic conditions have increased over recent decades. Patterns of how conditions change over time have not been widely examined...
Comparing a diagnosis list with a survey method to identify children with chronic conditions in an urban health centerKaren A Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, 50 Staniford St, Suite 901, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:58-62. 2002..To compare a diagnosis list to the Questionnaire for Identifying Children with Chronic Conditions (QuICCC) to assess their relative usefulness as measures for identifying children with chronic conditions...
Performance profiles: the influence of patient satisfaction data on physicians' practiceElizabeth A Rider
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 109:752-7. 2002....
Provision of fluoride varnish to Medicaid-enrolled children by physicians: the Massachusetts experienceInyang A Isong
Harvard Medical School, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospitalfor Children, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Health Serv Res 46:1843-62. 2011..To evaluate the impact of a 2008 Medicaid policy in Massachusetts (MA), regarding reimbursing physicians for providing fluoride varnish (FV) to eligible children in medical settings...
Trends in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ambulatory diagnosis and medical treatment in the United States, 2000-2010Craig F Garfield
Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:110-6. 2012..Because of several recent clinical and regulatory changes regarding attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the United States, we quantified changes in the diagnosis of ADHD and its pharmacologic treatment from 2000 through 2010...
Strategies for addressing barriers to publishing pediatric quality improvement researchJeanne Van Cleave
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Mass General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Pediatrics 128:e678-86. 2011..Advancing the science of quality improvement (QI) requires dissemination of the results of QI. However, the results of few QI interventions reach publication...
Parental perspectives of early childhood cariesInyang A Isong
MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 51:77-85. 2012..CONCLUSION. The findings make a strong case for pediatricians to take responsibility for engaging and educating parents on fostering optimal oral health and helping to access early childhood dental care...
Impact of false-positive newborn metabolic screening results on early health care utilizationEllen A Lipstein
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Genet Med 11:716-21. 2009..To analyze the association between false-positive newborn screening results and health care utilization...
Promoting safety in child and adolescent health care: conference overviewJames M Perrin
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Ambul Pediatr 4:43-6. 2004
Effects of removing gatekeeping on specialist utilization by children in a health maintenance organizationTimothy G Ferris
Insititute for Health Policy, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Partners Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:574-9. 2002..The "gatekeeping" model of access to specialty care has been an essential managed care tool, intended to control costs of care and promote coordination between generalists and specialists...
Cardiovascular risk of stimulant treatment in pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: update and clinical recommendationsPaul G Hammerness
Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 50:978-90. 2011..This review provides an update on the cardiovascular impact of therapeutic stimulant-class medication for children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...
A smoking cessation intervention for parents of children who are hospitalized for respiratory illness: the stop tobacco outreach programJonathan P Winickoff
MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, General Pediatrics Division, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts 02144, USA
Pediatrics 111:140-5. 2003..We evaluated the feasibility of implementing a smoking cessation intervention for parents at the time of child hospitalization for respiratory illness...
Diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in school-age children in primary care settings: a synopsis of the AAP Practice Guidelines. American Academy of PediatricsMartin T Stein
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, USA
Pediatr Rev 24:92-8. 2003
Breastfeeding advice given to African American and white women by physicians and WIC counselorsAnne C Beal
Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY 10021, USA
Public Health Rep 118:368-76. 2003....
Measuring children's health care qualityLisa Simpson
Child Policy Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039, USA. lisa
Am J Med Qual 22:80-4. 2007
The quality of children's health care matters--time to pay attentionJames M Perrin
N Engl J Med 357:1549-51. 2007
Treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: overview of the evidenceRonald T Brown
Pediatrics 115:e749-57. 2005..Comparison among stimulants (mainly methylphenidate and amphetamines) did not indicate that 1 class outperformed the other...
EPSDT (Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment): a primer in time of changeJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 6:63-4. 2006
Mothers' views on hyperactivity: a cross-cultural perspectivePradeep P Gidwani
Center for Child Health Outcomes, Children s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, CA, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 27:121-6. 2006..Mothers' perception of hyperactivity boys varies both with ethnicity and language of response. Latina mothers, especially Spanish-responding mothers, seem interested in discussing children's behavior with physicians...
The changing contours of pediatric practiceJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 6:303-4. 2006
A review of the evidence for the medical home for children with special health care needsCharles J Homer
National Initiative for Children s Healthcare Quality, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 122:e922-37. 2008..The receipt of health care in a medical home is increasingly touted as a fundamental basis for improved care for persons with chronic conditions, yet the evidence for this claim has not been systematically assessed...
Insuring children's health care: a call for papersJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 5:195-6. 2005
SCHIP, children, and politicsJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 7:405-6. 2007
Television viewing and initiation of smoking among youthPradeep P Gidwani
Center for Child Health Outcomes, Children s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, California 92123, USA
Pediatrics 110:505-8. 2002..The prevalence of smoking among US adolescents has increased since 1991. Despite bans on television tobacco advertising, smoking on television remains widespread...
Measuring outcomes in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderRonald T Brown
Temple University Health Sciences Center, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:627-30. 2007
Letter from the editor strengthening residency education in pediatricsJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 5:261-2. 2005
Cardiovascular monitoring and stimulant drugs for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderJames M Perrin
Pediatrics 122:451-3. 2008
Advances in scholarship in pediatric educationJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 7:145-6. 2007
Measuring outcomes in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderRonald T Brown
Ambul Pediatr 7:57-9. 2007
Whither public health insurance for children and youth (and families)James M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 4:129-30. 2004
Advocacy and child healthJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 4:267-8. 2004
Letter from the editor: Mental health issues for children and adolescentsJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 4:471-2. 2004
Viewing effects of the FY 2006 federal budget on children, youth, and familiesJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 5:71-2. 2005
Reducing deficits and the health of children, youth, and familiesJames M Perrin
Ambul Pediatr 6:185-6. 2006
Qualitative research and ambulatory pediatricsJohn P Co
Ambul Pediatr 5:129-30. 2005
Research Grants
- Quality of Life in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseJames Perrin; Fiscal Year: 2004..It will help to clarify the life domains that are affected by IBD and will inform interventions to improve QoL for children with IBD. ..
