The Journal of Pediatrics
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The Journal of Pediatrics is an international peer-reviewed journal that advances pediatric research and serves as a practical guide for pediatricians who manage health, diagnose and treat disorders in infants, children, and adolescents.
The Journal of Pediatrics
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In this volume of The Journal Singh et al perform a secondary analysis of a study of low-risk febrile infants evaluated in the emergency department (ED). The authors focused on contaminated cultures using specific criteria to define contamination in blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens. Surprisingly, nearly 10% had contaminated cultures, 4.9% of blood cultures, 5.0% of urine cultures, and 1.8% of CSF cultures. These findings are concerning and speak to some foundational practices that still hold true ..read more
The Journal of Pediatrics
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To examine the association between early-life atopic manifestations and later risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), for which prospective data are scarce ..read more
The Journal of Pediatrics
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Pediatric fellowship programs have conducted virtual interviews since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In this national survey of fellowship program directors (FPDs) and fellows interviewed in-person and virtually, FPDs and fellows formed accurate impressions, regardless of format, but our data did not clearly support one interview format over another ..read more
The Journal of Pediatrics
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Our goal was to identify predictors of invasive bacterial infection (ie, bacteremia and bacterial meningitis) in febrile infants aged 2 to 6 months. In our multicenter retrospective cohort, older age and lower temperature identified infants at low risk for invasive bacterial infection who could safely avoid routine testing ..read more
The Journal of Pediatrics
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To investigate the role of early antiretroviral therapy (ART) on growth trajectories of infants with HIV (IHIV) in the first year of life ..read more
The Journal of Pediatrics
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To examine if intergenerational transmission of parent weight talk occurs and the contextual factors prompting weight talk, and whether parent weight talk is associated with child weight, dietary intake, psychosocial outcomes, and food parenting practices ..read more
The Journal of Pediatrics
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To define major congenital anomaly subgroups and assess outcome variability based on defined subgroups ..read more