Academic pediatrics
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Academic pediatrics · May 2013
Use of active ingredient information for low socioeconomic status parents' decision-making regarding cough and cold medications: role of health literacy.
Parent administration of multiple medications with overlapping active ingredients places children at risk for overdose. We sought to examine how parents use active ingredient information as part of the process of selecting a cough/cold medication for their child and how health literacy plays a role. ⋯ Many parents, especially those with low health literacy, do not use active ingredient information as part of decision-making related to administering multiple medications.
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Academic pediatrics · Mar 2013
Randomized Controlled TrialEvaluation of a national Bright Futures oral health curriculum for pediatric residents.
Training in Bright Futures and oral health concepts is critical for delivery of high-quality primary care and preventive health services by residents, our future pediatric workforce. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an online health promotion curriculum on pediatric residents' confidence, knowledge, and clinical performance in Bright Futures and oral health practice. ⋯ The Bright Futures Oral Health curriculum promoted an increase in confidence and knowledge in Bright Futures concepts and in confidence and clinical performance in oral health concepts among pediatric residents. This online curriculum demonstrated a positive impact on documented resident behavior, maintained for 3 months after intervention, and provides a replicable national training model to advance important elements of primary care pediatrics.
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Academic pediatrics · Jan 2013
Design, validity, and reliability of a pediatric resident JumpSTART disaster triage scoring instrument.
To design an instrument for scoring residents learning pediatric disaster triage (PDT), and to test the validity and reliability of the instrument. ⋯ We report the validity and reliability testing of a PDT-scoring instrument. Validity was confirmed with no performance differential by PGY. Reliability of the scoring instrument for most patient-level triage, knowledge, and specific skills was high.