Relative importance of bacteremia and viremia in the course of acute fevers of unknown origin in outpatient children.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the cost and health benefits of implementing a risk factor-based prevention strategy for early-onset neonatal group B streptococcal (GBS) disease, using baseline assumptions and costs from a health maintenance organization. With the risk factor-based strategy, intrapartum antibiotics (IPAs) would...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mohle-Boetani JC,Lieu TA,Ray GT,Escobar G

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To estimate the effects of maternal and birth characteristics on the decision to breastfeed and to relate breastfeeding practices to racial differences in infant mortality. METHODS:Using a sample of women with young children from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Cycle V, 1995, the likelihood of ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Forste R,Weiss J,Lippincott E

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with renal disease, hypertension, and the Cockayne syndrome were evaluated. All patients had severe hypertension; peripheral vein renin was elevated in two patients. Renal biopsy specimens from two patients were studied by light microscopy, electron microscopy, and immunofluoresence. Immunohistologic st...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Higginbottom MC,Griswold WR,Jones KL,Vasquez MD,Mendoza SA,Wilson CB

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In 1996, the Residency Review Committee-Pediatrics recommended doubling time in continuity clinic to 2 half days per week. It has yet to be demonstrated that increased time in clinic yields greater continuity of care. The objective of this study was to determine whether increasing the number of half days spen...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： McBurney PG,Moran CM,Ector WL,Quattlebaum TG,Darden PM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether the consumption of a nutrient-enriched formula after hospital discharge determines different growth and weight gain composition in preterm infants according to intra- and extrauterine growth pattern. METHODS:Two hundred seven preterm infants were randomized at term-corrected age to rec...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Roggero P,Giannì ML,Amato O,Liotto N,Morlacchi L,Orsi A,Piemontese P,Taroni F,Morniroli D,Bracco B,Mosca F

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine factors associated with the maternal perception of the weight status in related and unrelated children and to examine whether associated health risks for children's physical and mental health are recognized. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Two hundred nineteen mothers with children between 3 and 6 years of a...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Warschburger P,Kröller K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) encompasses a wide spectrum of clinical severity, from mild developmental abnormalities to frank dislocation. Clinical hip instability occurs in 1% to 2% of full-term infants, and up to 15% have hip instability or hip immaturity detectable by imaging studies. Hip dysplasia is t...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Shaw BA,Segal LS,SECTION ON ORTHOPAEDICS.

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have indicated that internationally adopted children have an increased risk of developing precocious puberty, but no epidemiologic risk estimates have previously been calculated. We aimed to assess the risk of developing precocious puberty in intercountry adoptees, children immigrating with their fam...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Teilmann G,Pedersen CB,Skakkebaek NE,Jensen TK

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is a well-described complication of initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients. As the immune system recovers, an inappropriate inflammatory response often occurs that causes significant disease. It is most commonly seen in patients na...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Martin J,Kaul A,Schacht R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Servocontrol of skin temperature for the critically ill premature neonate nursed on a radiant warmer bed has been assumed to be analogous to skin temperature control for infants nursed in convection-warmed incubators. There are significant differences between these two warming techniques, and no definitive data exist ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Malin SW,Baumgart S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine what conditions are most likely to cause persistent or recurrent pneumonia (PRP) in children, the records of 81 children referred to James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children for evaluation of PRP were reviewed. Twenty patients had an apparent underlying cause that predisposed them to PRP. Of the 61 rema...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Eigen H,Laughlin JJ,Homrighausen J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the reliability and validity of a previously derived clinical dehydration scale (CDS) in a cohort of children with gastroenteritis and evidence of dehydration. METHODS:Participants were 226 children older than 3 months who presented to a tertiary care emergency department and required intravenou...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kinlin LM,Freedman SB

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of bone pain associated with primary hyperparathyroidism in a patient with sickle cell disease. A 17-year-old girl with sickle cell disease (SS phenotype) was seen for bilateral knee and back pain. She had had recurrent severe vaso-occlusive crises and acute chest syndrome in the course of her disease...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Krishnamoorthy P,Alyaarubi S,Abish S,Gale M,Albuquerque P,Jabado N

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New biomarkers like procalcitonin and C-reactive protein may help design an accurate decision support tool used to identify children with pleocytosis at low or high risk of bacterial meningitis. Our objective was to develop and validate a score (that we call the meningitis score for emergencies [MSE]) to dis...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mintegi S,García S,Martín MJ,Durán I,Arana-Arri E,Fernandez CL,Benito J,Hernández-Bou S,Meningitis Group of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Emergencies.

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends annual influenza immunization for all children with high-risk conditions who are 6 months of age and older, for all healthy children ages 6 through 59 months, for all household contacts and out-of-home caregivers of children with high-risk conditions and of healthy childre...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases.

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyze changes in the clinical condition at presentation and methods of establishing the diagnosis of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS). METHODS:Retrospective review of patients who underwent pyloromyotomy (PM) for suspected IHPS at two institutions from 1969 through 1994 was performed. For th...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hulka F,Campbell TJ,Campbell JR,Harrison MW

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on 6 infants who underwent elective surgery and developed postoperative encephalopathy, which had features most consistent with intraoperative cerebral hypoperfusion. All infants were <48 weeks' postmenstrual age and underwent procedures lasting 120 to 185 minutes. Intraoperative records revealed that most o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： McCann ME,Schouten AN,Dobija N,Munoz C,Stephenson L,Poussaint TY,Kalkman CJ,Hickey PR,de Vries LS,Tasker RC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the influence of outdoor air pollution on infant death in the South Coast Air Basin of California, an area characterized by some of the worst air quality in the United States. METHODS:Linking birth and death certificates for infants who died between 1989 and 2000, we identified all infant deaths...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ritz B,Wilhelm M,Zhao Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the US, a higher incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and a slower decline in the incidence of SIDS has been found among blacks when compared with white infants. The continued racial disparity in SIDS is thought to be attributable to lack of compliance with SIDS risk reduction recommendations....

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rasinski KA,Kuby A,Bzdusek SA,Silvestri JM,Weese-Mayer DE

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This paper compares the effects of goat's milk and cow's milk on weight gain and fat absorption, in children with overt malnutrition. METHODS:Thirty hospitalized malnourished children aged from 1 to 5 years were included in a randomized double-blind trial. The children were fed either goat or cow's milk with...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Razafindrakoto O,Ravelomanana N,Rasolofo A,Rakotoarimanana RD,Gourgue P,Coquin P,Briend A,Desjeux JF

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study's aim was to elicit the perspectives of minority parents on their expectations of pediatric health care providers as a source of advice on "raising their child" and whether they would seek advice from these providers. A secondary aim was to demonstrate the value of qualitative methods for assessing...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dumont-Mathieu TM,Bernstein BA,Dworkin PH,Pachter LM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if there is a relationship between diabetes outcome as measured by HbA1C and the number of multidisciplinary clinic visits per year in children and youth with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS:The number of clinic visits per year, the mean HbA1C (by DCA 2000, Miles, Tarrytown, NY), type of i...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kaufman FR,Halvorson M,Carpenter S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are limited data concerning pediatric prehospital care, although pediatric prehospital calls constitute 10% of emergency medical services activity. Data from 10,493 prehospital care reports in 11 counties of California (four emergency medical services systems in rural and urban areas) were collected and analyzed...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Seidel JS,Henderson DP,Ward P,Wayland BW,Ness B

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To retrospectively identify unrecognized human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection among a cohort of children transfused as neonates before donated blood was routinely screened for HIV-1 antibody. METHODS:Records at a large, private, metropolitan hospital were reviewed to identify children who we...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lieb LE,Mundy TM,Goldfinger D,Pepkowitz SH,Brunell PA,Caldwell MB,Ward JW

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been a gradual decrease in the proportion of children covered by private health insurance in Colorado and the United States with a commensurate increase in those with public insurance or having no insurance which may impact access to care and outcomes. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this work was to det...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Todd J,Armon C,Griggs A,Poole S,Berman S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hepatitis A infection causes severe disease among adolescents and adults. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices instituted incremental recommendations for hepatitis A vaccination (HepA) at 2 years of age based on risk (1996), in selected states (1999), and universally at 1 year of age, with vaccina...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dorell CG,Yankey D,Byrd KK,Murphy TV

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 198 children were followed from age 2 through first grade to see how consistent their behavior was across time and across settings. Measures of child behavior in the home were obtained when the children were ages 2, 4, and 5. Classroom behavior was ascertained when the children were in nursery school, kinde...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chamberlin RW

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience with more than 375 cases of possible sexual abuse has taught us that much work still needs to be done in understanding normal prepubertal female anatomy and interpreting findings in sexual abuse cases. Because pediatric clinicians are often called upon to assess possible sexual abuse victims, knowledge of w...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Herman-Giddens ME,Frothingham TE

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Published data show that plasma creatinine falls steadily during the first 28 days of life and that creatinine levels in the neonatal period are higher in more premature infants. However, the best reference data commence on day 2 of life. The objective of this study was to document how plasma creatinine chang...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Miall LS,Henderson MJ,Turner AJ,Brownlee KG,Brocklebank JT,Newell SJ,Allgar VL

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We conducted a retrospective cohort study to compare the use of triple therapy versus monotherapy for children and adolescents with perforated appendicitis and to determine whether there has been a transition to monotherapy within the freestanding children's hospitals that contribute to the Pediatric Health I...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Goldin AB,Sawin RS,Garrison MM,Zerr DM,Christakis DA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00