Several emergency department (ED)-based HIV screening programs have been described. However, the majority of these programs have been aimed at adults and older adolescents, and few have taken place in a dedicated pediatric ED. Given that many adolescents seek care in hospital EDs, ...

Trained counselors interviewed 192 women who had been trafficked and sexually exploited about abuse and evaluated their physical and mental health status within 14 days of entry into posttrafficking services. Most reported physical or sexual violence while trafficked (95%), pretraf...

OBJECTIVE: To describe the development and assess the validity and reliability of the Collaborative Care for Attention Deficit Disorders Scale (CCADDS), a measure of collaborative care processes for children with ADHD who attend primary care practices. METHODS: Collaborative care ...

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that clinical alerts for routine pediatric vaccinations within an electronic health record would reduce missed opportunities for vaccination and improve immunization rates for young children in an inner-city populat...

OBJECTIVE: To identify correlates of behavioral management strategies and to test whether children with more severe behavioral problems have care transferred to mental health specialists. METHODS: Secondary analysis of the Child Behavior Study. Children ages 4 to 15 years old were...

OBJECTIVE: The problems children have upon entering foster care can potentially explain prior research findings that frequent placement changes are associated with poor outcomes. This study sought to disentangle this cascading relationship in order to identify the independent impac...

OBJECTIVE: An opportunity exists to use increasingly prevalent electronic health records to efficiently gather immunization, clinical, and demographic data to assess and subsequently reduce barriers to immunization. The objective of this study was to use data entered at the point o...

Youth exiting detention facilities have particularly high rates of co-occurring health-risk behaviors, while lacking access to the health care system. Not surprisingly, these youth suffer a disproportionate share of adolescent morbidity and mortality. Their time of incarceration of...

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether racial and ethnic disparities in health care use differ for physical and behavioral health conditions. DATA SOURCES: Secondary analysis of the 1996–1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study of children aged 2–...

OBJECTIVES: To compare the presentation of young children with abdominal trauma caused by high-velocity accidental (HVA), low-velocity accidental (LVA), and inflicted injury, and to test the hypothesis that a delay in care is highly predictive of an inflicted injury. METHODS: We p...