Make the Diagnosis: Spring 2021
A bright 16-year-old high school freshman overdue for a well visit turns a 5-minute encounter into a 2-hour holistic visit.
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Alumni Notes Summer 2021
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I think we are seeing the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel—I sure hope so! It’s been a long slog, but I hope all of you are safe and happy and well.
Compassion Key to Helping Families Experiencing Food Insecurity
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CHOP’s Food Pharmacy 2.0, launched in March 2021, is an expansion of the original Food Pharmacy (FP), which offered healthy food to food-insecure families with a child in the Healthy Weight Program.
Disparities in Asthma Outcomes: Personal Touch Can Make a Difference
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A few years before Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia launched the Community Asthma Prevention Program (CAPP) in 1997, our colleagues in the Emergency Department sent weekly tallies of how many patients from CHOP’s original off-site primary care practice at 39th Street came to the ED for asthma-related problems.
Fellow’s Corner: Moving from Identifying to Addressing Disparities: Equity-focused Quality Improvement
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Early in my clinical training, I learned that as a clinician, treating diseases relied not only on my knowledge of pathophysiology and evidence-based medicine, but also on thoughtful evaluation and understanding of each patient’s unique social and environmental factors and the interactions with a patient’s race and ethnicity.
Holistic Care of Teens Requires Compassion, Connection and Confidentiality
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According to a groundbreaking report released April 2021 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there has been a 30% increase in reportable STIs from 2015 to 2019.
Make the Diagnosis: Summer 2021
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Five-year-old “Peter” presented to Clinical Genetics following evaluations by 27 subspecialists who were unable to provide his two physician parents with a unifying diagnosis to explain his seemingly disparate constellation of findings. But Peter’s parents were relentless in attempting to resolve their son’s diagnostic odyssey.
News at CHOP: Summer 2021
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The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPTS) at CHOP has published a paper in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology that reports on the COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Scales (CEFIS) it had created in the first few weeks of the pandemic.
Pediatric Reflections Summer 2021
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Achieving pediatric health equity requires bringing all resources to bear – that includes a diverse workforce.
Pediatric Reflections: Offering Guidance to Families of Autistic Youth Who Want to Drive
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A recent CHOP study found that newly licensed drivers on the autism spectrum have similar—or even lower—per-driver rates of crash involvement than their non-autistic peers.
Children's Doctor News Spring 2021
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News updates from the Spring 20201 edition of Children's Doctor.