Contemporary Pediatrics Newsletter

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How to treat persistent agitation in kids with impairments

Identifying the causes for severe agitation in children with neurologic impairments requires patience and persistence, and sometimes educated trial and error.

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What’s behind this baby’s hypotonia and failure to thrive?

A 4-month-old girl arrives at the clinic for a well-child visit. Her mother voices concerns about the infant’s poor weight gain, slow feeding habits, and physical delays such as head lag, poor grasp reflex, and rolling over.

What’s the diagnosis?

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.

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Should surgery be standard of care in uncomplicated appendicitis?

For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara discusses a large study published in Pediatrics that examined what happened when children were nonsurgically managed for appendicitis, often with antibiotics, and compared the results with their peers who had received surgical treatment.

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.

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