Sources of knowledge transfer among primary care pediatric health care providers.

Objectives: The authors sought to understand which informational sources pediatric health care providers perceive as most influential in how they stay current with health care innovations.

Methods: Rochester, New York, area pediatric health care providers were surveyed using a self-administered questionnaire. Two items pertained to the health care provider's ability to interpret primary research, and 9 items pertained to the influence and relative importance of various sources of information.

Why pediatric health care providers are not using homeopathic antidiarrheal agents.

Objectives: Several randomized, controlled trials have demonstrated the efficacy of homeopathic agents for use in childhood diarrhea. However, this therapeutic innovation is not being routinely adopted. We chose to study the degree of adoption as well as the perceived reasons for failure to adopt homeopathic antidiarrheal agents by pediatric health care providers.