Background And Objectives: The likelihood and severity of neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) affects critical health care decisions. NDI definitions were developed without parental perspectives. We investigated the agreement between parental vs medical classification of NDI among children born preterm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, immune-mediated inflammatory condition of the digestive tract associated with substantial psychosocial difficulties. Treatment often focuses on medications but may also include surgical approaches (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Transmural healing, including as assessed by magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) has been associated with long-term favorable outcomes in Crohn's Disease (CD), but data concerning MRE improvement and normalization with therapy are sparse. We performed a prospective longitudinal study utilizing the recently developed pediatric MRE-based multi-item measure of inflammation (PICMI) to examine the efficacy of adalimumab (ADA) and immunomodulator (IM) in attaining improvement of transmural inflammation of the small intestine.
Methods: Pediatric patients with CD involving small bowel and initiating ADA or IM were prospectively enrolled and followed with repeat MRE at 1 year.
This review of the history of neonatal follow-up identifies the challenges, inequity in access to care and the inequity in care delivery. It also reviews the outcomes of prematurity with a focus on common outcomes and those outcomes identified by parents as important. It assimilates the evidence around various models of care to model a program that provides care in all environments (rural and urban), leveraging local resources in collaboration with academic centers to provide greater equity in care delivery and an emphasis on function, rather than data collection.
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