HEALTHCARE COSTS
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As part of the Choosing Wisely campaign, the American Academy of Pediatrics worked with a team of neonatologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston to devise a list of the top 5 tests and treatments that can be left out of routine newborn care because of cost or lack of efficacy. Are you using these tests and treatments? |
NEUROLOGY
Often mistaken for viral infection, this encephalitis presents a bewildering mix of behavioral, psychiatric, movement, speech, autonomic, and brainstem-function symptoms in children and adolescents. What do you need to know? |
CONTRACEPTION
Pediatricians with adolescents in their practice must be knowledgeable about sexual activity in this population and the newest recommendations for counseling teenaged patients about contraception use. Are you up to date? |
HAVE YOU READ THESE?
Vaccine refusal
New therapy to fight pediatric hypoglycemia
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July 28, 2015 |
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CONTEST
For some pediatricians, the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program has sparked fury, but can it spark poetry? Here's your chance to channel your angst and amperage into 3 lines, 17 syllables, of verse about MOC.
Send us your best 5-7-5 syllable haiku. We’ll pick the most creative and immortalize it—even award a prize!
So rant, roar, preach, or praise, but ever so precisely. Here—we'll even get you started:
CME sufficed.
MOC's CME on steroids—
Follow the money.
Hurry! Send your entry by July 31 to cradwan@advanstar.com
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