The Effect of Exposure to Reach Out and Read on Shared Reading Behaviors.

Background: Caregiver-child shared reading improves literacy skills, school readiness, familial relationships, and social-emotional development. This multiyear study seeks to evaluate the effect of exposure to Reach Out and Read (ROR) on caregiver reading frequency and behaviors.

Methods: Caregivers of children 6 months to 5 years in 427 primary care clinics in North and South Carolina were asked to complete the Reach Out and Read Parent Feedback Survey.

Characteristics of Oklahoma Pediatricians Who Dismiss Families for Refusing Vaccines.

Vaccine refusal is increasing. Objectives were to assess frequency of declining or dismissing patients who refuse vaccines, which vaccine(s) prompt pediatricians to decline/dismiss patients, and demographics of pediatricians who decline/dismiss patients. Active members of the Oklahoma American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) were surveyed.

Clinician Perceptions on Literacy Promotion in Pediatric Continuity Clinics.

Objective: We describe LP perceptions of pediatric and internal medicine/pediatrics residents and faculty and determine the relationship between LP training and perceptions of LP. Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a widely implemented evidence-based literacy promotion (LP) intervention. Recent data have shown that there is variability in both LP training for pediatric residents and implementation of ROR.

Early literacy training among medical students.

Background: The American Academy of Pediatrics regards literacy promotion as essential. Medical professionals are in a key position to promote children's early literacy, however this requires knowledge of existing literacy programmes. This study describes medical student training, awareness, experiences, and attitudes towards early literacy and the 'Reach Out and Read' (ROR) initiative.

A survey of office practice: Parents, front office staff, nurses and clinicians hold disparate views on adolescent vaccines.

Background: Previous work suggests provider recommendation improves vaccine delivery. Less examined is the role of practice's front office staff and nurses in vaccine communication. Messaging and communication about vaccines should be consistent across all levels of the pediatric practice.

The impact of provider recommendation on human papillomavirus vaccine and other adolescent vaccines.

This study explored the association between provider recommendation and adolescent vaccine coverage. We analyzed data from the 2008 to 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen including coverage with one dose of quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenACWY), Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap), and one and three doses of Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. We compared vaccine coverage between those who recalled a provider recommendation and those who did not.

Literacy Promotion Training and Implementation in Pediatric Continuity Clinics.

Background: Despite endorsement by the American Academy of Pediatrics, there are no national data on literacy promotion (LP) training and behaviors.

Objective: To describe LP training experiences and behaviors of pediatric and internal medicine/pediatrics residents and faculty nationally, and the association between LP training and behaviors.

Methods: The Academic Pediatric Association's Continuity Research Network and Reach Out and Read National Center sent an online survey to faculty and residents at participating Continuity Research Network clinics.

Off-Label Medication use in Children, More Common than We Think: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Content: Clinician prescribing of off-label medications is common due to a lack of pediatric-specific data regarding the dosing, efficacy and safety of medications regularly prescribed to children.

Objective: This systematic review summarizes the published incidence of off-label medication use in children from the past 10 years. We also performed a retrospective chart review to determine the incidence of off-label prescriptions for children seen in the OU Physicians clinics.