Pediatrics
News
Study confirms key COVID-19 risk factors in children
Maskless family, social, and athletic event gatherings continue to pose the greatest risk of exposure to children.
News
No increase seen in children’s cumulative COVID-19 burden
New cases were down for the last week of 2020, American Academy of Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Association report.
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New pediatric cases down as U.S. tops 2 million children with COVID-19
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Child abuse visits to EDs declined in 2020, but not admissions
Proportion of visits related to child abuse and neglect that resulted in hospitalizations increased from 2019 to 2020.
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Latest rise in child COVID-19 cases is relatively small
Total number of U.S. cases reported in children is now over 1.8 million.
Clinical
The top pediatric articles of 2019
The ten articles that had the most impact on pediatric hospital medicine, as presented at HM20 Virtual.
Perspectives
Flattening the hierarchy
Hospitalists can learn lessons from the airline industry about how to build a nonhierarchical team.
News
Coronavirus has infected over 2% of U.S. children
AAP president: “In many areas, our health care system is terribly overburdened. The vaccine will not solve this overnight.”
News
New tool may provide point-of-care differentiation between bacterial, viral infections
Early results suggest high diagnostic accuracy at low cost.
News
New child COVID-19 cases down in last weekly count
The number of new U.S. cases reported during the week ending Dec. 3 fell for the first time since late September.