Use of bacterial antigen detection in the diagnosis of pediatric lower respiratory tract infections.

abstract：:A 4-year-old girl presented to a medical clinic with a painless right facial swelling. The treating physician ordered a radiograph of the sinuses and received a report of "maxillary sinusitis." After appropriate antibiotic treatment, the facial swelling increased, and the mother took the child to her community pediatr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Haber R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Building a strong foundation for healthy development in the early years of life is a prerequisite for individual well-being, economic productivity, and harmonious societies around the world. Growing scientific evidence also demonstrates that social and physical environments that threaten human development (because of ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Shonkoff JP,Richter L,van der Gaag J,Bhutta ZA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. Absence of known diabetes autoimmune markers is sometimes required to confirm the diagnosis. OBJECTIVE:To identify clinical and autoimmune characteristics of type 2 diabetes in a pediatric population. METHOD:We report an ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hathout EH,Thomas W,El-Shahawy M,Nahab F,Mace JW

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Norway, a national consensus-based guideline used to address thresholds for offering life support at extreme preterm birth was issued in 1998. Since then, therapeutic advances may have changed attitudes and expectations to treatment, both within the medical community and the public, and there are concerns that syst...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Syltern J,Markestad T,Saugstad OD,Støen R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), one of the largest US safety net programs, was revised in 2009 to be more congruent with dietary guidelines. We hypothesize that this revision led to improvements in child development. METHODS:Data were drawn f...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Guan A,Hamad R,Batra A,Bush NR,Tylavsky FA,LeWinn KZ

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is an examination of the nature and extent of the problem presented by medically uninsured children in the United States. First, the characteristics of the uninsured population are explored with a description of how age, family income, and employment status disproportionately affect families with children...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Oberg CN

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute sinusitis is frequently diagnosed in young children, yet little is known regarding pediatrician practices surrounding its diagnosis and management. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this work was to describe how pediatricians diagnose and manage nonsevere acute sinusitis in otherwise healthy children < or =6 ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： McQuillan L,Crane LA,Kempe A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) face unique challenges in accessing affordable health care. Massachusetts implemented major health reform in 2006; little is known about the impact of this state's health reform on uninsurance, access to care, and financial protection for private...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Smith AJ,Chien AT

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adults with childhood-onset epilepsy experience poorer adult social outcomes than their peers. The relative roles of seizures over time versus learning and psychiatric problems are unclear. METHODS:We examined independent influences of psychiatric and learning disorders and of seizure course in 241 young ad...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Berg AT,Baca CB,Rychlik K,Vickrey BG,Caplan R,Testa FM,Levy SR

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision-making is important in the context of pediatric chronic illness because children and families need to make decisions about burdensome and complex treatments on a regular basis, and children must eventually learn how to make such decisions independently. Research related to children's decision-making in medica...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Miller VA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) and apolipoprotein B (apo B) profiles were examined in 2,854 children, 5 to 17 years of age, from a total biracial community. Black boys had higher apo A-I levels than white boys (P less than .001), whereas girls showed no such race-related difference. Black-white difference in apo A...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Srinivasan SR,Freedman DS,Sharma C,Webber LS,Berenson GS

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of a consolidated immunization record may lead to problems with determining individual immunization needs at office visits as well as measuring vaccination coverage levels of a clinician's practice or a community's population. OBJECTIVES:For children with multiple immunization providers, evaluate the d...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Stokley S,Rodewald LE,Maes EF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Antimicrobial treatment may disturb the colonization resistance of gastrointestinal microflora, which may induce clinical symptoms, most commonly diarrhea. The severity of antibiotic-associated diarrhea may range from a brief, self-limiting disease to devastating diarrhea with electrolyte disturbances, dehyd...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Arvola T,Laiho K,Torkkeli S,Mykkänen H,Salminen S,Maunula L,Isolauri E

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the sample of 1726 special education students from the Collaborative Study of Children With Special Needs, the authors describe the related services being provided to the children and then analyze the relationship between service provision and class placement. Related services are provided in all settings, with ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Palfrey JS,Singer JD,Raphael ES,Walker DK

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinalysis has long been considered an important screening test for hospitalized children. The value of the admission urinalyses, required by hospital bylaws, was assessed for detecting urinary tract disease in children admitted to a day-care unit or impatient medical or surgical services during the months of June...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mitchell N,Stapleton FB

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diskitis, an inflammation of the intervertebral disk, is generally attributable to Staphylococcus aureus and rarely Staphylococcus epidermidis, Kingella kingae, Enterobacteriaciae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. In many cases, no bacterial growth is obtained from infected intervertebral discs. Although anaerobic bacter...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Brook I

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A workgroup meeting on the use of family history information in pediatric primary care and public health sponsored by the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was held February 24 to 25, 2006. The workgroup participants met to discuss how to ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Green RF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of tone and reflexes from 25 weeks postmenstrual age (gestational age plus chronologic age) to term in a population of 42 surviving infants is described. The infants were born in 1983 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, had birth weights less than 1300 g, were examined weekly until neonatal intensive care uni...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Allen MC,Capute AJ

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In experimental models of ischemic-anoxic brain injury, changes in body temperature after the insult have a profound influence on neurologic outcome. Specifically, hypothermia ameliorates whereas hyperthermia exacerbates neurologic injury. Accordingly, we sought to determine the temperature changes occurring ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hickey RW,Kochanek PM,Ferimer H,Graham SH,Safar P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to determine whether iron-fortified infant formulas produced gastrointestinal symptoms in infants, we fed two similar formulas, one with and one without iron fortification, to a group of 93 term infants upon discharge from the nursery on the third day of life. Infants were fed the formulas for a period o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors：

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic approach to childhood nephrotic syndrome is based on a series of studies that began with an international collaborative effort sponsored by the International Study of Kidney Disease in Children in 1967. The characteristics of children presenting with nephrotic syndrome have changed over recent decades ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gipson DS,Massengill SF,Yao L,Nagaraj S,Smoyer WE,Mahan JD,Wigfall D,Miles P,Powell L,Lin JJ,Trachtman H,Greenbaum LA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Abusive head injuries among infants (shaken infant or shaken impact syndrome) represent a devastating form of child abuse; an effective prevention program that reduces the incidence of abusive head injuries could save both lives and the costs of caring for victims. We wished to determine whether a comprehensi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dias MS,Smith K,DeGuehery K,Mazur P,Li V,Shaffer ML

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred children with the hyperkinetic syndrome or minimal brain dysfunction syndrome were treated with medication: 60 with methylphenidate (Ritalin), 24 with dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), and 16 with either imipramine or desipramine. The duration of treatment was for a minimum of two years, and averaged five yea...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gross MD

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the population impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) on pneumococcal-related diseases, including pneumonia and otitis media. METHODS:Using administrative data from Tennessee Medicaid and 3 commercial insurance plans in upstate New York, we measured annual rates of medical visits for pne...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Poehling KA,Lafleur BJ,Szilagyi PG,Edwards KM,Mitchel E,Barth R,Schwartz B,Griffin MR

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the preliminary 3-month outcome of a multicenter randomized trial of cryotherapy for treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Transscleral cryotherapy to the avascular retina was applied to one randomly selected eye when there was threshold disease (defined as five or more contiguous or eight cumulativ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors：

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chylothorax, the accumulation of chyle in the pleural space, is a relatively rare cause of pleural effusion in children. It can cause significant respiratory morbidity, as well as lead to malnutrition and immunodeficiency. Thus, a chylothorax requires timely diagnosis and treatment. This review will first discuss the ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Tutor JD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Dental caries is a common, chronic disease of childhood. The impact of contemporary changes in beverage patterns, specifically decreased milk intakes and increased 100% juice and soda pop intakes, on dental caries in young children is unknown. We describe associations among caries experience and intakes of da...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Marshall TA,Levy SM,Broffitt B,Warren JJ,Eichenberger-Gilmore JM,Burns TL,Stumbo PJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To increase weight gain in the first 28 days after birth for very low birth weight (VLBW) infants by isolating and sharing meaningful process differences between high- and low-weight-gain centers within a neonatal network. DESIGN/METHODS:We identified weight gain as an important target for improvement in 199...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bloom BT,Mulligan J,Arnold C,Ellis S,Moffitt S,Rivera A,Kunamneni S,Thomas P,Clark RH,Peabody J

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Advance care planning (ACP) is increasingly regarded as the gold standard in the care of patients with life-limiting illnesses. Research has focused on adults, but ACP is also being practiced in pediatrics. We conducted a systematic review on empirical literature on pediatric ACP (pACP) to ass...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lotz JD,Jox RJ,Borasio GD,Führer M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful intervention for inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) is a triumph of modern medicine. For many of these conditions, medical foods are the cornerstone of therapy and the only effective interventions preventing disability or death. Medical foods are designed for patients with limited or impaired capacity to in...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Berry SA,Brown CS,Greene C,Camp KM,McDonough S,Bocchini JA Jr,Follow-up and Treatment (FUTR) Workgroup for the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children.

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00