All Articles on Pediatrics

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  What drives Dr. Rita Mangione-Smith?

  In this Q&A, Kaiser Permanente Washington’s new top researcher describes her passion for quality improvement, strategic planning, and evening aperitivo.
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  For better pediatric care, back guidelines with more evidence

  In the 2000s, Dr. Beth McGlynn showed that rates of getting recommended care are low. In a new JAMA editorial, Dr. David Grossman has ideas to improve them.
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  Can kids be screened routinely for adverse childhood experiences?

  Lisa Schafer leads CCHE’s evaluation of the Center for Youth Wellness’ National Pediatric Practice Community on ACEs Screening.
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  Therapy-dog visits for kids with cancer: A safe way to induce smiles?

  Being in the hospital is stressful. A new KPWHRI study will see if visits from therapy dogs make the experience easier for pediatric cancer patients.
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  Closing the knowledge gap on prevention in pediatrics

  Does routine screening for autism, high cholesterol, and other problems improve kids’ health? We need better research to find out, Dr. Grossman says.
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  Families like practical wellness program

  Group Health tests behavioral treatment for obesity in real-world setting
• CT scans—with radiation and cancer risk—rose in children

  Use of computed tomography (CT) scans—and thus exposure to ionizing radiation—increased over 15 years in children at a set of nonprofit health care delivery systems in a new study. But currently available strategies could greatly reduce this cancer risk, according to the HMORN Cancer Research Network study, published in JAMA Pediatrics.