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Objective: Unintentional injuries remain a leading cause of death for children and adolescents older than 1 year. Injury prevention has long been a cornerstone of anticipatory guidance. Previous studies have established the sustained efficacy of injury prevention anticipatory guidance in pediatric primary care.

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Global Gaps in Training Opportunities for Pediatricians and Pediatric Subspecialists.

Acad Pediatr

August 2020

Boston Children's Hospital (BD Harper, J Vincuilla, JS Palfrey, and CM Russ), Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School (BD Harper, JS Palfrey, and CM Russ), Boston, Mass.

Objective: A comprehensive, well-trained pediatric workforce is needed to ensure high-quality child health interventions around the globe. Further understanding of pediatric workforce training capacity would assist planning at the global and country level. The purpose of this study was to better understand the availability and process of training programs for pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists worldwide, as well as in-country presence of subspecialists.

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To investigate the predictors and burden of hospital readmission with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) in a large European healthcare system with a low prevalence of hyper-virulent C. difficile clones. We conducted an inception cohort study based on an exhaustive health insurance database and including all survivors of a first hospital stay with CDI over a one-year period (2015) in France.

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Diagnosis of immunoallergenic pathologies due to microorganisms such as hypersensitivity pneumonitis includes detection of circulating specific antibodies. Detection of precipitins has classically been performed using immunoprecipitation techniques with crude antigenic extracts from microorganisms implicated as etiologic agents. However, these techniques lack standardization because of the different composition of fungal antigenic extracts from one batch to another.

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A 56-year-old man with a large paraesophageal hiatus hernia, treated in a tforeign clinic with a Nissen fimdoplication (when a lesion of the gastric fornix during laparoscopic dissection has determined conversion to open technique) is admitted 3 weeks after surgery, being diagnosed with an esophageal leekage witch maintains a large subphrenic abscess with sepsis. The patient was cured by draining the leakage, excluding the esophagus by an "à minima" alimentary jejunostomy, under broad spectrum antibiotherapy.

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To estimate the real figure of the potential patient recruitment for hadrontherapy we carried out a survey directly in 5 radiation therapy departments of the East of France as a "one-day survey". The results presented account for 77 cases of potential indications among 532 evaluated medical records.

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