News
Study confirms key COVID-19 risk factors in children
January 7, 2021
Maskless family, social, and athletic event gatherings continue to pose the greatest risk of exposure to children.
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No increase seen in children’s cumulative COVID-19 burden
January 6, 2021
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
December 30, 2020
Drop in weekly pediatric cases was the second since the beginning of December.
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Child abuse visits to EDs declined in 2020, but not admissions
December 23, 2020
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
December 22, 2020
Total number of U.S. cases reported in children is now over 1.8 million.
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The top pediatric articles of 2019
December 22, 2020
The ten articles that had the most impact on pediatric hospital medicine, as presented at HM20 Virtual.
Opinion
Flattening the hierarchy
December 18, 2020
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
December 15, 2020
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
December 10, 2020
Early results suggest high diagnostic accuracy at low cost.
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New child COVID-19 cases down in last weekly count
December 8, 2020
The number of new U.S. cases reported during the week ending Dec. 3 fell for the first time since late September.