The Challenges of Multisource Feedback: Feasibility and Acceptability of Gathering Patient Feedback for Pediatric Residents.

Objective: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education calls for residency programs to incorporate multisource feedback, which may include patient feedback, into resident competency assessments. Program directors face numerous challenges in gathering this feedback. This study assesses the feasibility and acceptability of patient feedback collection in the inpatient and outpatient setting at 3 institutions.

Two heme-dependent terminal oxidases power Staphylococcus aureus organ-specific colonization of the vertebrate host.

Unlabelled: Staphylococcus aureus is a significant cause of infections worldwide and is able to utilize aerobic respiration, anaerobic respiration, or fermentation as the means by which it generates the energy needed for proliferation. Aerobic respiration is supported by heme-dependent terminal oxidases that catalyze the final step of aerobic respiration, the reduction of O2 to H2O. An inability to respire forces bacteria to generate energy via fermentation, resulting in reduced growth.

Promoting positive developmental outcomes in sexual minority youth through best practices in clinic-school consultation.

Topic: Educational and healthcare service delivery systems play an important role within the lives of sexual minority youth.

Purpose: To provide justification and recommendations for improving the coordination and collaboration of school-based mental health professionals and child and adolescent psychiatric nurses via presentation of a set of consultation best practices.

Sources: Multidisciplinary literature specific to sexual minority youth, school climate, clinical experience, and consultation practices.

Prescription practices and empirical efficacy of psychopharmacologic treatments for pediatric major depressive disorder.

Problem: Limited research on pharmacologic treatments for pediatric major depressive disorder (MDD) exists.

Methods: Prescription practices data for MDD from 1,209 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry members collected in 1998 are compared to the current empirical support for this treatment approach.

Findings: Results indicated that psychiatrists have willingly used medication as a first-line treatment for MDD in children under age 7, despite a paucity of research support for this practice.