A5022955401- Child and Adolescent Health
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Social Media in Health Education
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
- Synthesis of β-Lactam Compounds
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Web and Library Services
Texas Children's Hospital
2020-2025
Baylor College of Medicine
2018-2024
National Health Service Scotland
2024
Veterans Health Administration
1998
Objective Using health literacy informed communication strategies can mitigate inequities. Despite the high prevalence of limited among parents and children, pediatricians infrequently use clear techniques further education is imperative. There minimal literature exploring curricula in pediatric residencies. We sought to evaluate across residency programs. Methods The Academic Pediatric Association's Health Literacy Special Interest Group performed a national, cross-sectional survey...
COVID-19 accelerated the use of telemedicine. Subsequently, clinical sites began conducting virtual visits. Academic institutions implemented telemedicine for patient care and simultaneously had to teach residents logistics best practices. To meet this need, we developed a training session faculty focused on practices teaching in pediatric realm.We designed based institutional society guidelines experience with Objectives included documentation, triage, counseling, ethical issues We...
Background: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that pediatricians address the social determinants health (SDOH) through research, community partnership, and policy development. Objective: This study aimed to identify unmet SDOH patients served by Pasadena-Pediatric Adolescent Health Center (PA-PAHC) understand provider perspectives on screening for SDOH. Methods: PA-PAHC is a low-income pediatric clinic in southeast Houston. A cross-sectional survey eliciting potential concerns...
Equitable social determinants of health (SDOH) screening has been recommended by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Joint Commission; however, little is known about Spanish-speaking caregiver preferences on how they would like to be screened. We conducted a cross-sectional study at 3 pediatric clinics (October-December 2019). Caregivers completed (in English or Spanish) an SDOH survey. Three hundred eighty-two 443 caregivers approached (response rate = 86.2%) Most were...
Patients referred by their general practitioner (GP) with a definite diagnosis, for example, recurrent sore throat consideration of tonsillectomy in adults, may wait months without receiving any further clinical information from the hospital until outpatient consultation. Prompt provision condition-specific after referral has received little attention despite considerable potential to enhance patients' understanding, thereby relieving uncertainty and anxiety, facilitating shared...
The effects of a pharmacist-education initiative on the use and costs ketorolac in state Medicaid program are reviewed. An intervention letter describing changes manufacturer's prescribing guidelines for providing suggestions interacting with physicians regarding was sent to 150 301 pharmacies that participate New Mexico's program. remaining 151 served as control group. Ketorolac claims records three months before after were mean quantity tablets, total days' supply, number prescriptions...
Purpose: Pediatricians play an important role in promoting the healthy development of young children. Learning to do this well is a key component residency training. The Reach Out and Read (RoR) program, within primary care clinics, evidence-based promotes literacy, shared reading, language RoR depends on providers for implementation; however, continuity are learners themselves. This study assessed resident knowledge, attitudes, practices towards literacy promotion large diverse pediatric...
Background: The Pew Research center stated that social media use has increased from 7% in 2005 to 65% 2015. One popular form of is Twitter. Twitter users post “tweets” 140 characters or less and can follow each other, “re-tweet” “like” posts. Users also choose “follow” directly receive tweets other organizations. utilizes hashtags (#) identify related certain topics serve as a searchable term. A hashtag used by AAP members #tweetiatrician …
Background: Screening for social determinants of health (SDOH), defined as circumstances affecting patient health, is recommended by the AAP all children. While research has shown that SDOH screening can improve ethical considerations must also be addressed. In particular, caregiver comfort with specifically where, how, and whom occurs unclear. Objective: To develop pilot a survey asking caregivers …
Background: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends social determinants health (SDOH) screening all families and providing resources in the clinical setting. However, preferences for both SDOH resource delivery vary greatly. In particular, patients’ comfort with delivery, specifically where, how, by whom, is unclear. Objective: To determine how whom caregivers would like to be screened receive resources. Methods: …
Background: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends social determinants health (SDOH) screening all families and providing resources in the clinical setting. However, preferences for both SDOH resource delivery vary greatly. In particular, patients' comfort with delivery, specifically where, how, by whom, is unclear. Objective: To determine how whom caregivers would like to be screened receive resources. Methods: study was conducted at 3 pediatric clinics that care underserved children...