Academic pediatrics
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Academic pediatrics · Jan 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialInnovative delivery of newborn anticipatory guidance: a randomized, controlled trial incorporating media-based learning into primary care.
Recent initiatives seek to incorporate efficient, evidence-based practices into primary care. This study tested the feasibility, impact, and acceptance of incorporating a DVD of newborn anticipatory guidance into routine well-child care. ⋯ A DVD of newborn anticipatory guidance was feasible, well accepted, and had a positive impact in a pediatric practice. Video and other technologies represent an efficient, innovative way to reach parents as part of the office encounter.
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Academic pediatrics · Jan 2011
Randomized Controlled TrialUse of a pictographic diagram to decrease parent dosing errors with infant acetaminophen: a health literacy perspective.
Medication dosing errors by parents are frequent. We sought to whether a pictographic dosing diagram could improve parent ability to dose infant acetaminophen, and to determine whether pictogram benefit varies by health literacy level. ⋯ Inclusion of pictographic dosing diagrams as part of written medication instructions for infant acetaminophen may help parents provide doses of medication more accurately, especially those with low health literacy. High error rates, even among parents with adequate health literacy, suggest that additional study of strategies to optimize dosing is needed.
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Academic pediatrics · Jan 2011
Comparative StudyNatural history of pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza infection in healthy pediatric outpatients.
The pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 (pH1N1) virus is expected to remain a prominent circulating strain in the current and subsequent influenza seasons. The objective of this study was to compare the clinical course of infection with laboratory-confirmed pH1N1 and seasonal influenza A and B in a cohort of previously healthy children managed in the outpatient setting without antiviral therapy. ⋯ In most children without underlying risk factors for severe influenza, pH1N1 virus causes an uncomplicated respiratory tract illness, no more severe than seasonal influenza.