Understanding barriers to well-child visit attendance among racial and ethnic minority parents.

Objectives: To assess racial and ethnic minority parents' perceptions about barriers to well-child visit attendance.

Methods: For this cross-sectional qualitative study, we recruited parents of pediatric primary care patients who were overdue for a well-child visit from the largest safety net healthcare organization in central Massachusetts to participate in semi-structured interviews. The interviews focused on understanding potential knowledge, structural, and experiential barriers for well-child visit attendance.

Risk scorecard to minimize impact of COVID-19 when reopening.

Background: We present a novel approach for exiting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdowns using a 'risk scorecard' to prioritize activities to resume whilst allowing safe reopening.

Methods: We modelled cases generated in the community/week, incorporating parameters for social distancing, contact tracing and imported cases. We set thresholds for cases and analysed the effect of varying parameters.