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In Spring 2020, public health agencies worldwide rapidly issued alerts about a rare, hyperinflammatory illness in children, presumed to be a post-infectious immune response to COVID-19, using somewhat different diagnostic criteria and nomenclature. In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Disease Prevention (CDC) termed it the Multisystem Inf...
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Observational studies have improved our understanding of the risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome, but separate examination of risk for sleep-related suffocation and unexplained infant deaths has been limited. We examined the association between unsafe infant sleep practices and sudden infant deaths (sleep-related suffocation and unexplain...
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To assess the 6-month incidence of laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, postnatal care, hospitalization, and mortality among infants born to people with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy by timing of maternal infection. Using a cohort of liveborn infants from pregnanci...
Published in Pediatrics
Published in Pediatrics
National guidelines recommend a 5- to 7-day course of antibiotics for most skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs). Our aim was to increase the percentage of pediatric patients receiving 5 to 7 days of oral antibiotics for SSTIs in our pediatric urgent care clinics (UCCs) from 60% to 75% by December 31, 2021. We performed cause-and-effect analysis ...
Published in Pediatrics
Published in Pediatrics
Young people are exposed to an abundance of advertising for unhealthy products (eg, unhealthy foods, tobacco, alcohol). Because of their developing cognition, children may not be able to understand the intent of advertising. However, advertising restrictions often assume that adolescents have critical reasoning capacity and can resist the effects o...
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Adverse events (AE), including death, occur in children with benzonatate use. This study aims to understand recent trends in benzonatate exposure and clinical consequences in pediatric patients. This retrospective analysis of data from IQVIA pharmacy drug dispensing, National Poison Data System, National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-Cooper...
Published in Pediatrics
Published in Pediatrics
