OBJECTIVES: Despite great needs, many children in foster care do not receive adequate medical care. Suboptimal care may be attributable in part to placement changes, which disrupt continuity of care by both a consistent surrogate parent and potentially a primary care physician. These…

BACKGROUND: Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and asthma incur similar health care costs that are greater than those of most children without these conditions. Preliminary findings suggest that children with emotional behavioral disorders, anxiety and depression,…

BACKGROUND: To help design population-based pediatric palliative care services, we sought to describe the hospital care received in the last year of life by children and young adults who died. We also determined the proportion with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) and tested whether…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of educational programmes for the self management of asthma in children and adolescents. DATA SOURCES: Databases of the Cochrane Airways Group, PsychINFO, reference lists of review papers, and eligible studies. REVIEW METHODS: Eligible…

OBJECTIVE: Recent reports suggest a trend of increasing prevalence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, reasons for the increased use of such medications is unclear. The objectives of this study were to…

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in children. Its hallmarks are hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and inattention beyond the norm for a child's age. The disorder is frequently diagnosed in children with behavioural…

BACKGROUND: Despite an increasing prevalence of diagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children, the impact of ADHD on utilization and costs of health care services is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE: To examine differences in health care utilization and costs…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the risk of hospitalization associated with prenatal care use and indicators of socioeconomic status and social support among infants of teenage mothers. DESIGN: Population-based case-control study. SETTING: Nonfederal hospitals in Washington State. …

This Research at a Glance brief describes the goals, methods and findings of a PolicyLab project designed to help families and clinicians make decisions about ADHD treatment.

This Research at a Glance brief presents findings from a recent study of refugee health, including findings that refugees are more likely to have worse health status, chronic disease, disabling pain, and higher rates of uninsurance than other immigrants.