Provider, staff, and parent perspectives on the feasibility, utility, and implementation of the Family Health Scale in primary care pediatrics.

Introduction: Improving child health involves focusing on family capacities and resources, including family health. This study aimed to assess (a) current practices for collecting family information in pediatric primary care settings, and (b) the feasibility, acceptability, and utility of a validated Family Health Scale-Short Form (FHS-SF) to screen for family health from clinic staff and parent perspectives.

Method: We piloted the FHS-SF in two urban pediatric clinics in 2022.

IL-19 as a promising theranostic target to reprogram the glioblastoma immunosuppressive microenvironment.

Background: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive brain tumor with chemoresistant, immunosuppressive, and invasive properties. Despite standard therapies, including surgery, radiotherapy, and temozolomide (TMZ) chemotherapy, tumors inevitably recur in the peritumoral region. Targeting GBM-mediated immunosuppressive and invasive properties is a promising strategy to improve clinical outcomes.

Temperature-stable tunneling current in serial double quantum dots: insights from nonequilibrium green functions and Pauli spin blockade.

We theoretically investigate charge transport through serial double quantum dots (SDQDs) with strong electron correlations using nonequilibrium Green's function techniques. In the linear response regime, we compute the charge stability diagram and analyze the Coulomb oscillatory tunneling current, revealing both thermal and nonthermal broadening effects on the current spectra in relation to two gate voltages. In the nonlinear response regime, we focus on tunneling currents in SDQDs under the Pauli spin blockade (PSB) scenario.

Human-Centered Design to Create an Emergency Care Action Plan for Children With Medical Complexity.

Human-centered design (HCD) is rooted in building trust with end users by developing empathetic understanding of key partners' needs, continuous engagement, and iterative solution creation and refinement. One of the core tenets of HCD in health care is that consistent end-user engagement will result in better health outcomes. Children with medical complexity (CMC), a subset of children and youth with special health care needs, are characterized by multiple chronic health care conditions and high health care use, including emergency department visits.

A mixed methods pilot study of a virtual therapeutic writing intervention for adolescent/young adults with cancer.

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a virtual therapeutic writing intervention for AYAs with cancer.

Methods: A single-arm pilot study of the intervention was conducted at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. The six-session intervention was facilitated by a writing coach over two to three months, during which time participants produced written work regarding their experiences with cancer.