Arch Pediat Adol Med
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Arch Pediat Adol Med · Sep 1996
Pediatric Research. National Institutes of Health support in the 'steady-state' decade, 1983-1993.
To examine the trend in the US Public Health Service's National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for pediatric research over the last 10 years in terms of dollars expended, grants awarded to pediatrics departments vs other medical school departments, NIH Clinical Research Center support, and the distribution of NIH grants to all medical schools and children's hospitals in the United States. ⋯ Pediatric research has increased its absolute and relative NIH grant support in the last 10 years to a greater degree than all other clinical departments except for psychiatry, neurology, and anesthesiology. The distribution of grants favors a small number of departments and children's hospitals. Clinical pediatric research supported by the NIH has fallen dramatically. In the era of stable NIH funding, pediatric investigators must develop other sources (private funding and industry) for expanding their research activities.
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Arch Pediat Adol Med · Sep 1996
Noncompliance with scheduled revisits to a pediatric emergency department.
To determine the incidence of, the risk factors associated with, and the consequences of noncompliance (NC) with a scheduled revisit to a pediatric emergency department (ED). ⋯ The high rate and the lack of predictability of NC with a scheduled revisit to an ED should influence patient disposition decisions. The factors associated with NC in this study may serve as a model for identifying parents who are at a high risk of NC and as a foundation for interventions designed to improve compliance.
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To ascertain the specific suggestions that local police departments in the United States give to parents who ask for advice about methods to safely store handguns. ⋯ Trigger locks are frequently recommended but infrequently used by police themselves at home. Portable lockboxes are frequently recommended as well as used by police.