AAP: American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): National Conference and Exhibition
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Advances in digital otoscopy help improve AOM diagnoses
NEW ORLEANS – “The availability of digital otoscopy in the office setting may improve our diagnostic skills and...
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Are you operating in the black when it comes to vaccine administration?
NEW ORLEANS – “Practices that have the discipline to maintain their inventories are inevitably the ones who are more...
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Helping adolescents get enough quality sleep
NEW ORLEANS – Everything from social activities to school demands to technology can interfere with teens’ ability to get enough quantity and...
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Pediatricians uniquely qualified to treat adolescents with opioid use disorder
NEW ORLEANS – Increasing numbers of OUD patients are initiating buprenorphine treatment in the ED.
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Adding mental health clinicians to your practice is full of benefits
NEW ORLEANS – Nationwide, half of patients who are referred for mental health do not make their initial appointment...
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Tide beginning to turn on vaccine hesitancy
NEW ORLEANS – “Is it your inalienable right as a U.S. citizen to allow your child to catch and transmit a...
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Tips for helping children improve adherence to asthma treatment
NEW ORLEANS – Common patient-related barriers include poor understanding of how the medication may help and how to...
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Children with single ventricle CHD at risk for behavioral, emotional problems
NEW ORLEANS – Patient disease-related stress had the strongest association with externalizing problems, and worse social determinants of health...
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Understanding your LGBTQ patients’ needs
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Recurrent intussusception rare in young children
NEW ORLEANS – Even when intussusception recurs, only 30-40% will happen within the first 24-48 hours.
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Wandering is underrecognized, serious problem for autistic children
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Urban or rural, children’s gun-related injuries equally deadly
NEW ORLEANS – Nearly three-quarters of accidental injuries (72%) occurred on the gun owner’s property, and 58% were considered potentially...
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Long catheters best standard-sized ones in trial of pediatric surgery patients
NEW ORLEANS – Of failed catheters, peripheral intravenous catheters are most likely to infiltrate, while long...
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Biologics options for pediatric asthma continue to grow
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Child gun deaths lowest in states with strictest firearm laws
ORLANDO – Suicide rates were lowest in states with laws specifically restricting youth access to firearms.