Increasing Follow-up for Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms.

Background: Prompt follow-up for positive depression screen results is important in providing high-quality care for adolescents. We sought to improve follow-up within 30 days for adolescents (≥12 years) with Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores ≥10, or those with a positive question 9, from 25% to 40%.

Methods: We conducted a quality improvement project at 6 primary care locations serving ∼33,300 patients (70% Black, 7.

Pediatrician-Authored Opinion/Editorial Articles Published in Newspapers Before and After the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: Pediatricians publish opinion/editorials in newspapers as a form of advocacy. No research has characterized these publications to determine the scope of this communication.

Objective: We examined the characteristics of pediatrician-authored op-eds, comparing articles published in a seasonally matched six-month period before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sodium channel Na1.3 is important for enterochromaffin cell excitability and serotonin release.

In the gastrointestinal (GI) epithelium, enterochromaffin (EC) cells are enteroendocrine cells responsible for producing >90% of the body's serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT). However, the molecular mechanisms of EC cell function are poorly understood. Here, we found that EC cells in mouse primary cultures fired spontaneous bursts of action potentials.