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Why is this toddler unable to walk?
A 22-month-old African American boy born at 38 weeks by normal vaginal delivery presents to a local hospital from a private pediatric office for failure to thrive. He was seen by his pediatrician until aged 1 month but was lost to follow-up. His delay in walking prompted his mother to reestablish care at age 22 months.
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How comfort care helps kids with persistent agitation
NPs can teach the concepts of comfort measures to families who struggle with caring for neurologically impaired children.
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All Healthcare is not Local: The Human Cost of Disparate Health Data
Can you access patient data from outside systems within your existing EHR workflow? Now you can. Read how a truly national record locator service improves patient care coordination and positively impacts care quality.
 
CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS VIDEO
 
Does strep elevate risk for mental disorders?
image description here For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara discusses a large cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry that examined whether children with a positive strep test are more likely than their counterparts to develop mental disorders, particularly tic disorders and OCD.

 
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ADHD in Children
To glean new insights into the treatment of ADHD, athenaResearch analyzed records from all 295,000 patients who visited doctors for ADHD treatment on athenahealth's EHR service from January-April 2016. Read more.
 
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