With schools in the U.S. considering strategies to safely reopen following their closure for the COVID-19 pandemic, our experts, alongside colleagues within Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Division of Infectious Diseases, prepared a policy review compiling emerging evidence a...

Advocacy regarding child health policy is a core tenet of pediatrics. Previous research has demonstrated that most pediatric providers believe collective advocacy and political involvement are essential aspects of their profession, but less is known about how pediatric providers en...

Little is known about missed opportunities (MOs) for HPV vaccination during primary care visits at which influenza vaccination is delivered. We extracted electronic health records for HPV vaccine-eligible 11-to-17-year-olds. We assessed the proportion of visits during which an infl...

Message framing can be leveraged to motivate adult smokers to quit, but its value for parents in pediatric settings is unknown. Understanding parents' preferences for smoking cessation messages may help clinicians tailor interventions to increase quitting. We conducted a discrete c...

BACKGROUND: This study examined whether distinct sleep problem trajectories from infancy through middle childhood were associated with multiple aspects of child well-being at ages 10-11 years. METHODS: Data were from the first six waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Child...

While COVID-19 has placed many youth sports seasons on hold, the absence of team play is affecting more than just team records.    Sports provide youth with opportunities for growth and development on and off the field such as training for a goal, learning to be a good teammate, ...

IMPORTANCE: Local variation in the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) across the United States has not been well studied. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of county-level factors with variation in the SARS-CoV-2 reproduction number ove...

On January 20, 2020, authorities reported the first US case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Snohomish County, Washington. By March 11, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, and on March 13, the US declared a national emergency. On March 18, the America...

Families have been faced with important decisions about child care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to allowing caregivers to participate in the workforce, child care is valuable for children’s social and emotional development. Therefore, caregivers considering child care ...

With child care settings beginning phased reopening in Pennsylvania, we prepared this checklist of questions to help guide parents, guardians and families in these conversations.   The questions presented in this document are generated by experts in pediatric primary care, infect...