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..We used this information in the development of patient-reported outcome items for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Pediatrics project.

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..Clinician adherence to obesity screening guidelines from United States health agencies remains suboptimal. This study explored how personal and career demographics influence pediatricians' weight assessment and management practices...

..75 should be replaced by the exponent of the allometric equation developed for that drug...

..The objective is to open the discussion between industry, academia, paediatricians and regulators on the optimal use of M&S in paediatric medicinal development...

..From different examples, the application of this modelling approach is discussed as a possible and valuable method to minimize the ethical and technical difficulties of conducting research in children...

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..No prior parent surveys have assessed national rates of screening and counseling for parental tobacco use in the context of their child's visit to primary care...

..Future European paediatric regulations should encourage the development of medicines in high-quality ethical research and ensure availability of information to the public...

..We wanted to determine whether a health maintenance organization's (HMO's) implementation of a pediatric hospitalist system affected LOS, costs, mortality, readmission rate, follow-up rate, and parents' ratings of care...

..wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission, particularly type 3 in northern India necessitated the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) to convene a National Consultative Meeting to review its earlier recommendations on polio eradication and ..

..Examples of PK and PK-pharmacodynamic (PK-PD) studies will be finally given. The number of population PK studies published still exceeds largely those of PK-PD...

..The goal of this study was to evaluate awareness of, agreement with, and implementation of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) media use guidelines among pediatricians...

..K-PD models have already demonstrated their usefulness in animal and adult studies. They are very attractive for pediatric studies and they should facilitate the assessment of drug efficacy and safety...

..Over 80% of the children were within the desired plasma exposure window, and the initial PK model was validated on the confirmatory dataset...

..Given the lack of research on how medical educators in clinical settings view their teaching, the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the teaching beliefs of faculty in a pediatrics department in a college of medicine.

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Little is known regarding at what point during the training period residents in pediatrics make decisions on their future career choices...

..Involvement of children and parents in the development of clinical trials is recommended and valued both by ethical review boards and patient/parent support organizations...

..To identify target areas for interventions to improve communication between pediatric generalists (PCPs) and pediatric subspecialists (SPs) in the outpatient care of children with chronic conditions...

..Additionally, some commonly used excipients may be unsuitable for use in children; and some dosage forms may be undesirable to the paediatric population...

..This study tested the impact of web administration on well-established measures of children's physical function and quality of life...

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..In December 2001 and January 2002, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued PCV7-shortage recommendations, emphasizing that all health care providers decrease the number of ..

To describe the prevalence, characteristics, and barriers to implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in pediatrics.

The American Academy of Pediatrics acute otitis media guidelines could reduce antibiotic use...

To determine how department chairs in pediatrics rate involvement in medical research and to determine whether faculty deans' offices have written criteria for evaluating research activity when assessing candidates for promotion or tenure.

..To examine the relationship between physicians' tobacco-related medical training and physicians' confidence in their tobacco-related skills and smoking-related interventions with parents of child patients...

Selection of a drug dose in pediatrics is generally based on no or incomplete pharmacokinetic data...

Significant gains have been made in the appreciation of pediatrics as an important population in which rationale pharmacotherapy guidance is warranted but often currently lacking...

..The goal was to review the impact of pediatric drug studies, as measured by the improvement in pediatric dosing and other pertinent information captured in the drug labeling...

..to the "community's standard of care" is a common guideline for prescribing "off-label" in pediatrics, but must be used in combination with multiple respected pediatric resources and with full knowledge of ..

..the last decade, surveys of pediatric training programs have shown trends toward residents choosing careers in general pediatrics rather than in subspecialties. Most recently, there is evidence of a shift back toward subspecialty careers.

The effects of a pharmacist-led pediatrics medication safety team (PMST) on the frequency and severity of medication errors reported were studied.

..The population pharmacokinetic model reveals that increase in age has minimal influence on body size dependent clearance of valsartan in children...

..Our analysis shows the consequences of empirical dose adjustment and the importance of priors from historical data to support dose selection in children...

..We conclude that fMRI can successfully be applied in children and holds great promise for both research and clinical purposes...

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..This article delineates the challenges to pediatric HIV care in South Africa and provides some practical recommendations to improve it...

..This review will give some of the history and current progress in pharmacological research and pediatric drug development...

..Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)/Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for improving health care for all children has long been recognized...

..We assessed paediatric care in the 13 public hospitals in the north-east of the United Republic of Tanzania to determine if diagnoses and treatments were consistent with current guidelines for care...

..Nosocomial outbreaks caused by resistant organisms are described, and an approach to empiric therapy based on presumed pathogens, site of infection, and local resistance patterns is discussed...

..to 1,762 New York State pediatricians selected randomly from the membership directory of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The response rate was 43% (764/1,762); 63% of responding pediatricians were parents...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that children consume no more than 30% but no less than 20% of energy as dietary fat intake, and this recommendation is accompanied by suggestions that fat calories should be replaced by ..

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..It is critical to have 1) personnel trained in pediatrics to prescribe, prepare, dispense and administer medications, 2) a quality review system in place to review drug ..

..To determine how many online clinical trial registers include paediatric trial data, how much information is provided, ease of searching for paediatric trials and the accessibility of paediatric trial data in general...

..The aim of this study was to provide an assessment of pediatric residency training in adolescent medicine...

..The objective of this study was to report suggestions for improving the informed consent process from the perspective of parents of children with leukemia...

..Specialty differences in dietary recommendations, referrals, and barriers to treatment were identified. Pediatric overweight management guidelines should consider specialty differences and be accessible to all pediatric care providers...

..We sought to determine the diagnostic utility of the Reveal ILR (Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) in pediatric patients...

..This paper provides a review of the literature on team training with specific emphasis on the perspectives of emergency and critical care pediatricians...

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The overall incidence of nosocomial infections (NI) in pediatrics ranges between 2.3% to 12.6%. They have great variations according to age (7-12% under 1 year of age vs 1...

..The most cost-effective method of approaching this obesity epidemic is through education of health professionals...

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..To study the different indications behind performance of a first Doppler echocardiography (DE) in children, to assess the results and their impact on the residency teaching program in Lebanon...

..to which parents of children with autism compared with parents of children with asthma or other special health care needs report receiving primary care for their child consistent with the American Academy of Pediatrics medical home model.

..The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived adequacy of previous training in AT, specific training needs, preferred methods of training, and the confidence level of pediatric physical therapists in providing AT...

..Anaesthetic competences necessary to the achievement of this mission and the means of maintaining these later are analyzed and compared with some foreign experiments...

..Physicians are known to exert a direct influence on immunization rates by answering questions and clarifying misconceptions. Yet, it is unknown how they immunize their own children...

..We systematically summarize pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest epidemiology and assess knowledge of effects of specific out-of-hospital interventions...

..Pediatric studies are needed to assess the safety, feasibility, and effectiveness of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest and other causes of brain injury...

..Family-focused grief therapy is one model, used with both adolescent and adult families, that has promise for the field. The time has surely arrived for palliative medicine to focus on family-based research...

..Therefore, future comparative studies need to be performed to find a rapid antigen test with sensitivity comparable to that of throat culture, for use at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base pediatric clinic...

..CONCLUSIONS: A combined program of medical education/quality assurance-improvement in the emergency department is feasible and seems to contribute to improved medical services and patient care...

..To determine the prevalence of and reasons for the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in paediatric patients, and to determine the parental need for appropriate information from their paediatrician...

..Comparison of the United States with other countries' delivery systems may highlight different assumptions as well as structural approaches for consideration...

..Rapid improvement of child health outcomes also will be realized through robust health services research in pediatrics, including the application of rigorous quality improvement science that documents and disseminates successful ..

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..However, the increase in Dutch stimulant use agrees with the previously reported 2.5-fold increase in the United States and shows that the increased use of stimulants is not limited to the United States...

..The goal was to compare visit data from Continuity Research Network practices with data for a nationally representative sample of pediatric visits in practice settings from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey...

..The aim of this study was to assess the level of knowledge and compliance of parents with children presenting for emergency care of the National Highway and Traffic Association safety seat guidelines in private cars and taxicabs...

..We sought to describe the use of computed tomography (CT) over time in the treatment of children with acute closed head trauma in US EDs...

..To examine the use and accuracy of a brief screening tool to identify family hunger, administered in an inner-city primary health care setting and the use of food assistance programs by families in this setting...

..Our goal was to describe patient and hospital characteristics associated with in-hospital mortality, length of stay, and charges for critically ill children with severe sepsis...

..The Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Pediatric Committee performed a survey to determine characteristics and future plans of the Canadian pediatric gastroenterology workforce and trainees...

..The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that if the functions described in this document are supported in all electronic health record systems, ..

..Biliary atresia is the most common pediatric indication, and these recipients do better than those with other types of liver disease. Most deaths occur in the first post-transplant year, with infection being the largest cause...

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..To examine state differences in children's utilization of injury-related emergency department (ED) care across 14 states, benchmarking aggregate state estimates against national expenditure estimates for outpatient injury-related ED care...

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a medical home for children with special health care needs (CSHCN)...

..General pediatricians' information needs are not presently well characterized in the literature...

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..CONCLUSIONS: Several aspects of the clinical component of the final examination in paediatrics for medical undergraduates need to be improved to minimise the inconvenience experienced by the children and their parents...

..Shorter length of stay with the hospitalist model also may reflect improved quality of care...

..These also identify how sensitive paediatricians achieved this ideal through meeting the 'double obligation' of combining technical skills with an understanding of their needs as parents...

..from five clinical departments (Internal Medicine, Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Family Medicine and Pediatrics) are pursuing rigorous didactic coursework and mentored research projects in the following areas: External ..

..E.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-..

..E.</author></authors></contributors><auth-address>Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-..

..components of the medical and graduate schools (pathology, microbiology and immunology, internal medicine, pediatrics, preventive medicine and community health, and human biological chemistry and genetics)...

..much less is known about the epidemiology of multi-drug resistance in Gram-negative organisms, particularly in pediatrics. Our preliminary data demonstrate statistically significant and very worrisome increases in plasmid-borne, broad-..

..a web-based curriculum on the ELSI related to genetics for primary care residents in internal medicine and pediatrics. METHODOLOGY: Over three years, we will build a web-based curriculum on ELSI issues related to genetics with a ..

..and Public Health, Director of the Center for Population Health and Evidence-Based Medicine, and a Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Epidemiology at UT Houston...

..The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children be screened with an ASD-specific screening tool at 18- and 24- months...

..There is very little known about the drug disposition of nucleoside/nucleotide analogs in pediatrics populations; given the magnitude and frequency to which the youngest of children globally are exposure to these ..

National guidelines (e. g., American Academy of Pediatrics, 2002; New Freedom Commission, 2003) call for primary care clinicians to screen for and triage problems related to mental health, development, and family functioning...