Corrigendum: Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on well child care and vaccination.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.

Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Well Child Care and Vaccination.

Objectives: The COVID-19 virus is highly contagious primarily via aerosol transmission and has a high mortality rate. On March 13, 2020, the United States declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to enumerate the effect of the pandemic on vaccination rates during the COVID-19 lockdown and the aftermath in pediatric patients aged 6weeks-6 years.

CHALLENGES OF SECURING GROWTH HORMONE COVERAGE FOR IDIOPATHIC SHORT STATURE: REVIEW OF THE 7-YEAR EXPERIENCE AT ONE INSTITUTION.

Objective: Despite U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval of growth hormone (GH) for idiopathic short stature (ISS), many providers face challenges obtaining insurance coverage.

Outpatient Advance Care Planning Internal Medicine Resident Curriculum: Valuing Our Patients' Wishes.

Background: Although many studies have illustrated the discomfort that resident physicians feel when discussing end-of-life (EOL) issues with their patients, fewer studies have addressed interventions to directly increase medical resident proficiency and comfort in conducting these discussions and for translating these beliefs into a formal advance care plan.

Objectives: We report on an innovative curriculum conducted at The University of Chicago (NorthShore) internal medicine residency to improve residents' proficiency and comfort in leading outpatient advance care planning (ACP) discussions.

Methods: Four educational components were executed.

Perspectives of Health-Care Providers Toward Advance Care Planning in Patients With Advanced Cancer and Congestive Heart Failure.

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) discussions afford patients and physicians a chance to better understand patients' values and wishes regarding end-of-life care; however, these conversations typically take place late in the course of a disease. The goal of this study was to clarify attitudes of oncologists, cardiologists, and primary care physicians (PCPs) toward ACP and to identify persistent barriers to timely ACP discussion following a quality improvement initiative at our health system geared at improvement in ACP implementation.

Methods: A 20-question, cross-sectional online survey was created and distributed to cardiologists, oncologists, PCPs, and cardiology and oncology support staff at the NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) from February to March 2015.