Accuracy of Children's Perioperative Memories.

Children's declarative memories of medical procedures can influence their responses to subsequent events. No previous study has examined the accuracy of children's declarative memories after surgery. We tested the memory of 34 anesthesia-naïve five- to nine-year-old children undergoing ambulatory surgery for accuracy of contextual details, pain, and fear two weeks postoperatively.

Development and feasibility testing of the Pediatric Emergency Discharge Interaction Coding Scheme.

Background: Discharge communication is an important aspect of high-quality emergency care. This study addresses the gap in knowledge on how to describe discharge communication in a paediatric emergency department (ED).

Objective: The objective of this feasibility study was to develop and test a coding scheme to characterize discharge communication between health-care providers (HCPs) and caregivers who visit the ED with their children.

Measuring attentional bias in children with prominent ears: A prospective eye-tracking study.

Background And Aim: When observing new faces, most people focus their attention on the central triangle of the face containing the eyes, nose and mouth. When viewing faces with prominent ears, observers may divert their attention from the central triangle. The objective of this study was to determine whether there was an objective attentional bias to prominent ears in comparison to non-prominent ears.

Decisional Conflict in Parents Considering Bone-Anchored Hearing Devices in Children With Unilateral Aural Atresia.

Objective: The benefits of bone-anchored hearing devices (BAHD) in children with unilateral aural atresia are controversial. We sought to determine whether there is parental decisional conflict surrounding elective placement of BAHD for this indication.

Methods: Caregivers of pediatric patients with unilateral aural atresia and normal contralateral ear undergoing percutaneous BAHD consultation were enrolled.

Understanding shared decision making in pediatric otolaryngology.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the level of decisional conflict experienced by parents considering surgery for their children and to determine if decisional conflict and perceptions of shared decision making are related.

Study Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Academic pediatric otolaryngology clinic.

Pediatric otoplasty and informed consent: do information handouts improve parental risk recall?

Background: The elective nature of pediatric otoplasty requires that parents are well educated regarding the risks involved. Simple educational tools have been found to enhance risk recall in some surgical procedures.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of information handouts in improving parental risk recall.

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices for cervical cancer screening among the Bhutanese refugee community in Omaha, Nebraska.

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer mortality among women with the vast majority of patients in developing countries. Bhutanese refugees in the United States are from South Central Asia, the 4th leading region of the world for cervical cancer incidence. Over the past few years, Bhutanese refugees have increased significantly in Nebraska.

An anatomically sound surgical simulation model for myringotomy and tympanostomy tube insertion.

Objective: Myringotomy and tympanostomy tube insertion (MT) is a common surgical procedure. Although surgical simulation has proven to be an effective training tool, an anatomically sound simulation model for MT is lacking. We developed such a model and assessed its impact on the operating room performance of senior medical students.

Duplicate Publication and Related Problems in the Pediatrics Literature.

Objective. The aim of this study was to (a) determine the rate of redundant publication in the pediatrics literature and (b) to characterize these articles. Methods.