Parents' experiences with pediatric care at retail clinics.

Importance: Little is known about the use of retail clinics (RCs) for pediatric care.

Objective: To describe the rationale and experiences of families with a pediatrician who also use RCs for pediatric care.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional study with 19 pediatric practices in a Midwestern practice-based research network.

Pediatric providers' attitudes toward retail clinics.

Objective: To describe pediatric primary care providers' attitudes toward retail clinics and their experiences of retail clinics use by their patients.

Study Design: A 51-item, self-administered survey from 4 pediatric practice-based research networks from the midwestern US, which gauged providers' attitudes toward and perceptions of their patients' interactions with retail clinics, and changes to office practice to better compete.

Results: A total of 226 providers participated (50% response).