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Volume 30, Issue 7
July 2009
AAP News Cover Image for Volume 30, Issue 7
ISSN 1073-0397
EISSN 1556-3332

News and Features

Reducing RSV hospitalizations
AAP modifies recommendations for use of palivizumab in high-risk infants, young children
H. Cody Meissner, M.D., FAAP; Joseph A. Bocchini, Jr., M.D., FAAP
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Topics: palivizumab
Strained resources
Chaos in EDs and pediatric offices during early weeks of H1N1 outbreak provides lessons
Kristy Kennedy
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Topics: disease outbreaks , influenza a virus, h1n1 subtype , swine influenza , swine-origin influenza virus , influenza
CDC reinstates Hib booster dose due to improving supply
Joseph A. Bocchini, Jr., M.D., FAAP
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Topics: haemophilus b conjugate vaccines , haemophilus influenzae type b , vaccines
This month in Pediatrics
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Topics: advisory committees , communication and information technology , counseling , expert testimony , family health
AAP policy outlines benefits of personal health records in pediatric care
Alan E. Zuckerman, M.D., FAAP
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Topics: personal health records
New FDA principal deputy commissioner seeks ideas
Joshua Sharfstein, Jr., M.D., FAAP
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Topics: united states food and drug administration
BCBS settlement agreement allows physicians to file disputes
from the AAP Private Payer Advocacy Advisory Committee
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Topics: add-on code , blue cross , blue shield , cpt codes , developmental screening
Bullying, dating violence, firearms
Violence prevention policy recommends ‘Connected Kids’
Joseph L. Wright, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP
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Topics: bullying , firearms , violence , violence prevention
Use new policy to assess your competencies in providing mental health care for youths
Lori O’Keefe
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Topics: mental health , adolescent
Rash approach
Symptoms key to diagnosis of tickborne diseases
Lori O’Keefe
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Topics: exanthema , tick-borne diseases , ticks , lyme disease
Redesigned PediaLink meets needs of residents, program directors
from the AAP Division of E-Learning
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Topics: internship and residency , program directors

Infectious Disease Update

Predictive values of blood tests to diagnose LTBI have not been established in children
Jeffrey R. Starke, M.D., FAAP
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Topics: interferon gamma release assay , latent tuberculosis , tuberculin test , blood tests , tuberculosis

Health Briefs

RSV more common in U.S. children than thought
Carla Kemp
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Topics: inpatients , outpatients , respiratory syncytial virus infections , respiratory syncytial viruses , respiratory tract infections
Injuries from skate shoes soar
Carla Kemp
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Topics: shoes , skates (fish)
When to discharge children hospitalized with pertussis
Carla Kemp
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Topics: pertussis
Dilute bleach baths may ease eczema symptoms in children
Carla Kemp
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Topics: bathing , baths (medical device) , bleach , eczema

Washington Report

AAP keeping children’s needs front and center in health reform debate
Erin Howard
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Topics: health care reform , medical home

President-elect Candidates

Anne B. Francis, M.D., FAAP
Practice management expert champions technology
Wynn St. Clair
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Topics: practice management
O. Marion Burton, M.D., FAAP
Community pediatrician’s background drives medical home advocacy
Wynn St. Clair
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Topics: advocacy , community , medical home , health care reform , south carolina

Letter from the President

Maintenance of Certification for us older pediatricians?
David T. Tayloe, Jr., M.D., FAAP
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Topics: maintenance of certification

Research Update

Who works nights, weekends in ambulatory pediatric care?
from the AAP Department of Research
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Topics: weekend

Commentary

Pediatricians must be included in workforce discussions
Beth A. Pletcher, M.D., FAAP
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Topics: workforce , primary care physicians

Focus on Subspecialties

Concerns abound over genetic tests available to consumers
Kimberly A. Iafolla, M.D., FAAP
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Topics: genetic screening
Alternatives proposed for pediatric cardiac device approval
Robert H. Beekman, III, M.D., FAAP
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Topics: device approval , heart , medical devices

Chapter Views and News

Arizona chapter tackles childhood obesity head-on
from the AAP Department of Community, Chapter and State Affairs
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Topics: arizona , childhood obesity , obesity

Pediatricians and the Law

Policy reviews legal, ethical standards of medical expert testimony
Gary N. McAbee, D.O., J.D., FAAP
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Topics: ethics , expert testimony , principles of law and justice

Coding Corner

HCPCS Level II modifiers not limited to Medicare patients
from the AAP Division of Health Care Finance and Quality Improvement
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Topics: healthcare common procedure coding system , medicare , modifiers

FDA Update

Children at risk from secondary exposure to topical testosterone
from the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Pediatric Therapeutics and Pediatric & Maternal Health Staff
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Topics: child at risk , testosterone

AAP Abroad

Global Tobacco Prevention effort launched
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Topics: tobacco

For Your Information

AAP flagship journal enhancements unveiled in July
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Topics: color , feedback
AAP literacy kit
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Topics: literacy
Medical home toolkit
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Topics: medical home
State child health data
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Topics: child health
Real-time swine flu updates
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Topics: swine influenza
Practice Management Online
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Topics: practice management
Immunization Update 2009
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Topics: immunization
PedJobs blog
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Topics: feedback , hospitalists , newborn
Immunization business online CME
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Topics: education, medical, continuing , immunization
On the Web
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Topics: antiviral agents , disease outbreaks , influenza , institute of medicine (u.s.) , masks

For Your Benefit

Top 10 reasons to value your AAP membership
from the AAP Department of Membership
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Topics: advocacy , affinity , maintenance of certification

CME

Win big with Practical Pediatrics CME in Las Vegas
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Topics: education, medical, continuing , las vegas

Health Alerts

Toy beach chairs
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Topics: toys
Play yards with bassinets
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Topics: body rocking , canada , consumer product safety , postural sway when standing , sleep
Strollers
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Topics: basal energy expenditure , bees , consumer product safety , netherlands
Trampolines
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Topics: trampolines

Fellows in the News

Fellows in the News - July 2009
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Topics: hospitals, pediatric , professors , schools, medical , care of intensive care unit patient , palliative care

In Memoriam

In Memoriam - July 2009
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Parent Plus

Pedal safely when biking with baby on board
Trisha Korioth
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Topics: bicycling , foot
Bug off: Avoid tickborne diseases with these savvy strategies
Lori O’Keefe
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Topics: tick-borne diseases

College Parent Plus

College 101: Take care of yourself
Alyson Sulaski Wyckoff
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Topics: analgesics , bandages , chronic disease , college students , daughter
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