pediatric academic society

(University of Rochester Medical Center) A community-wide study in upstate New York found that nearly 28 percent of all visits to the pediatric emergency department could have been replaced with a more cost-effective Internet doctor's "visit," or telemedicine, according to investigators from the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The Rochester team will present these findings and more at this year's Pediatric Academic Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Even with prior private health insurance, patients enrolling in the state children's health insurance program had unmet health care needs.

Instituting a waiting period to deter "crowd-out" would further prolong these children's need to address asthma and other chronic health conditions, according to research from the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The study will be presented in a presidential plenary session Monday, May 5, at this year's Pediatric Academic Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Almost one-third of US parents have a surprisingly low-level knowledge of typical infant development and unrealistic expectations for their child's physical, social and emotional growth, according research from the University of Rochester.

The new findings, which suggest that such false parenting assumptions can not only impair parent-child interactions, but also rob kids of much-needed cognitive stimulation, will be presented Sunday, May 4, at the Pediatric Academic Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Nationwide, uninsured children in families earning between $38,000 and $77,000 annually are nearly as likely to forgo health care as uninsured children in poorer families.

More than 40 percent of children in those income brackets who are uninsured all year see no physicians and have no prescriptions all year, says new research from the University of Rochester Medical Center, to be presented Saturday, May 3, at the Pediatric Academic Society's annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.