Biliblanket Utilization for Outpatient Treatment of Newborn Jaundice.

Hyperbilirubinemia is a common neonatal diagnosis. Biliblankets have the potential to reduce readmission for hyperbilirubinemia. The study purpose was to characterize home biliblanket treatment for hyperbilirubinemia using retrospective medical record review of newborns with total serum bilirubin of 0.

Motivational Advising Workshop: Utilizing Motivational Interviewing Theory to Facilitate and Engage Intrinsic Motivation to Change Learners' Behavior.

Introduction: Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling method that utilizes a patient's own motivation to effect personal change. MI has been applied routinely and successfully to managing medical conditions (e.g.

A Two-Year Longitudinal Assessment of Ophthalmologists' Perceptions after Implementing an Electronic Health Record System.

Objectives: To understand the attitudes and perceptions of ophthalmologists toward an electronic health record (EHR) system, before and after its clinical implementation.

Methods: Ophthalmologists at a single large academic ophthalmology department were surveyed longitudinally before and after implementation of a new EHR system. The survey measured ophthalmologists' attitudes toward implementation of a new EHR.

Two-year longitudinal assessment of physicians' perceptions after replacement of a longstanding homegrown electronic health record: does a J-curve of satisfaction really exist?

This report describes a 2-year prospective, longitudinal survey of attending physicians in 3 clinical areas (family medicine, general pediatrics, internal medicine) who experienced a transition from a homegrown electronic health record (EHR) to a vendor EHR. Participants were already highly familiar with using EHRs. Data were collected 1 month before and 3, 6, 13, and 25 months post implementation.

The right not to hear: the ethics of parental refusal of hearing rehabilitation.

Objective: To explore the ethics of parental refusal of auditory-oral hearing rehabilitation.

Study Design: Case study with medical ethical discussion and review.

Methods: Two young brothers present with severe-to-profound congenital sensorineural hearing loss.

Variation in establishing a diagnosis of obesity in children.

Consensus guidelines provide recommendations for the diagnosis and management of obesity. We conducted a medical record review of children initially diagnosed with obesity at a general pediatrics visit. The diagnosis was made most often at health maintenance visits (46%).