Pediatrics
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Studies of the efficacy of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) to prevent or treat respiratory failure in preterm infants have had variable and contradictory findings. ⋯ There was a 7% reduction in the risk of the composite outcome of death or BPD at 36 weeks for infants treated with iNO compared with controls but no reduction in death alone or BPD. There is currently no evidence to support the use of iNO in preterm infants with respiratory failure outside the context of rigorously conducted randomized clinical trials.
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Comparative Study
Nonurgent emergency-department care: analysis of parent and primary physician perspectives.
To better understand parental decisions to seek care for their children and physician perceptions of parents' decisions to seek nonurgent emergency-department care. ⋯ When individual interviews were evaluated, neither parents nor primary care physicians saw nonurgent emergency-department visits as a significant enough problem to warrant any change in physician care practices or parent care-seeking behavior.
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Comparative Study
Professionalism expectations seen through the eyes of resident physicians and patient families.
Resident physicians and patient families have not traditionally been involved in setting expectations for professional behavior by physicians. ⋯ There was important overlap in the attributes of professionalism generated and prioritized by resident physicians and patient families, although only residents identified ways that health care providers should interact with each other. This novel approach to identifying professionalism attributes provides opportunities for curriculum improvement.