Insights from Team Clinic: A Person-Centered Virtual Peer Group Care Model Adapted for Marginalized and Historically Excluded Youth with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D).

Background: Despite advancements in T1D care regimens, racially and ethnically diverse youth with low income continue to experience worse health outcomes, more psychosocial challenges, and higher barriers to care. Alternative care models are needed to address the needs of this population.

Methods: Team Clinic is a person-centered virtual peer group (VPG) care model that was assessed in a 15-month, pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

Family-Reflections.com: Creating a parent-to-parent web-based tool regarding pediatric home ventilation.

Background: The decision to initiate pediatric mechanical ventilation via tracheostomy ("home ventilation") is complex and parents often desire information from other parents who have faced this decision. However, parent-to-parent communication is challenging as it is difficult to connect new families to experienced families in ways that optimize informed, balanced decision-making.

Objective: Create a parent-to-parent web-based tool to support decision-making about pediatric home ventilation.

Team clinic: Expansion of a multidisciplinary care model for adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Background: Adolescent and young adults (AYA) with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) experience more difficulty with glycemic control than patients in all other age groups. The shared medical appointment (SMA) model has been effective in multiple healthcare populations, but the feasibility and effectiveness of SMA in AYA patients with T1D is unclear.

Methods: This research leverages the team's multidisciplinary expertise to develop an engaging intervention toolkit and test the implementation of the Team Clinic care model for the treatment of T1D among middle school adolescents in a large urban children's hospital serving an economically, racially and ethnically diverse population.

Are Comic Books Appropriate Health Education Formats to Offer Adult Patients?

Physicians who recommend patient education comics should consider that some patients might question the appropriateness of this format, especially in the US, where a dominant cultural view of comics is that they are juvenile and intended to be funny. In this case, Dr. S might have approached communication with Mrs.

The Feasibility of Utilizing a Comic for Education in the Emergency Department Setting.

The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of a comic education module in the Emergency Department setting. A convenience sample of 50 injured children and their caregivers were enrolled. The comic was found to be likeable, easy to read, and provided important information to both children and their caregivers.