Enhancing Physician Advocacy Through Collaboration With Government Relations: Report From the Health Policy Scholars Program.

Objective: To explore barriers, facilitators, and benefits of collaboration between academic pediatricians and institutional offices of government relations (OGR) to enhance policy advocacy efforts.

Methods: The Academic Pediatric Associations' Health Policy Scholars met with the government relations team in their affiliated institutions as part of their experiential learning curriculum. Afterward, they submitted written reflections, which were coded and analyzed using inductive qualitative content analysis to identify key themes.

Variations in Safe Sleep Practices and Beliefs: Knowledge is not Enough.

Objectives: Sleep-related infant deaths in the District of Columbia (DC) varies, with rates in certain geographical areas three times higher than DC and seven times higher than the national average. We sought to understand differences in infant sleep knowledge, beliefs, and practices between families in high-risk infant mortality and low-risk infant mortality areas in DC.

Methods: Caregivers of infants presenting to the emergency department were surveyed.

Postpartum Depression Screening and Referral in a Pediatric Emergency Department.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the (1) proportion of screened postpartum depression (PPD)-positive mothers, (2) associated risk factors, and (3) impact of PPD screening in a pediatric emergency department (PED).

Study Design: We performed a pilot cohort study using a convenience sample of mothers (n = 209, all ages) of infant patients 6 months or younger presenting to a PED. Mothers completed a computerized survey that included the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.