[Access to Early Childhood Interventions in Children̛s Hospital: Screening as Clinical Routine Procedure - Exploration and Transfer by a Specialized Team].

Background: In order to prevent risks associated with insufficient family care, it is mandatory to provide early childhood interventions for parents unable to cope with their young children in best time. Children̛s hospitals represent one pillar that hasn´t been fully explored yet.

Methods: As a proof-of-concept, we performed a study to determine the feasibility of a standardized risk assessment tool during routine work of doctors and nurses in a university department.

[Case finding in early prevention networks - a heuristic for ambulatory care settings].

Background: One goal of early prevention is the support of families with small children up to three years who are exposed to psychosocial risks. The identification of these cases is often complex and not well-directed, especially in the ambulatory care setting.

Objective: Development of a model of a feasible and empirical based strategy for case finding in ambulatory care.

Communicating psychosocial problems in German well-child visits. What facilitates, what impedes pediatric exploration? A qualitative study.

Objective: To examine whether, and if so, how psychosocial topics are discussed between parents and pediatricians.

Methods: Thirty well-child visits at eight pediatricians' practices in southwest Germany were video recorded. Conversations were analyzed.

Foot problems in the diabetic transplant recipient.

Diabetic transplant recipients are at a high risk for foot pathology leading to amputation. This retrospective study from 1/85 to 2/95 examines the risk of foot complications in a population (n = 340) of diabetic renal and combined renal/pancreas transplant recipients. All groups suffered high lower extremity amputation and foot fracture rates.

Late renal function in patients undergoing renal revascularization for control of hypertension and/or renal preservation.

Long-term outcome was studied in 233 patients who had undergone renal artery revascularization (51 with balloon angioplasty, 182 with surgery) between 1976 and 1992. Patients (excluding renal transplants) were treated for renal vascular hypertension without or with renal insufficiency (serum creatinine > 1.6 mg/dl.