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Submissions from 2021 2021

Caring for Families with Young Children Affected by Substance Use Disorder: Needed Changes, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD

Mothering from the Inside Out: Addressing the Intersection of Addiction, Adversity, and Attachment with Evidence-Based Parenting Intervention, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD

Engagement in perinatal outpatient services among women in recovery from opioid use disorders, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD and Peter Friedmann MD

Editorial: History of Growth Hormone: Animal to Human, Edward Reiter MD

Human Growth and Growth Hormone: From Antiquity to the Recominant Age to the Future, Edward Reiter MD

Are We Making Progress in the Hunt for Biomarkers that could differentiate PPI-Responsive Eosinophilic Esophagitis?, Wael Sayej MD

Use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonistsfor pediatric patients with obesity and diabetes: the providers' perspectives, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD

Association of Maternal Perinatal SARS-CoV-2 Infection With Neonatal Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Massachusetts, Ruben Vaidya MD

Predictors of successful patent ductus arteriosus closure with acetaminophen in preterm infants, Ruben Vaidya MD, Alex Knee, Yvonne Paris MD, and Rachana Singh MD

Leveraging the Massachusetts perinatal quality collaborative to address the COVID-19 pandemic among diverse populations, Ruben Vaidya MD and Rachana Singh MD

Submissions from 2020 2020

Predominant and novel de novo variants in 29 individuals with ALG13 deficiency: Clinical description, biomarker status, biochemical analysis and treatment suggestions, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Efficacy of Fosphenytoin as First-Line Antiseizure Medication for Neonatal Seizures Compared to Phenobarbital, Veronica Alix MD, Mansi James, Anthony Jackson MD, Paul Visintainer, and Rachana Singh MD

Sustaining the Pediatric Endocrinology Workforce: Recommendations from the Pediatric Endocrine Society Workforce Task Force, Charlotte Boney MD

Estimating the Relevance of Historical Red Flags in the Diagnosis of Abusive Head Trauma, Stephen Boos MD

An audit of oxygen supplementation in a large tertiary hospital - We should treat oxygen as any other drug, Neil Devoe DO, Periklis Kyriazis, Ahmed Eltanbedawi MD, Anisha Contractor DO, Anthony Esposito DO, Muhammad Khan MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Venous Thromboembolism in a Transgender Adolescent on Testosterone Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review, Elaine Fan MD, Chelsea Gordner DO, and Joanna Luty MD

Concordance of Identified Cases of Pediatric HA-VTE with American College of Physicians and Cincinnati Children's Hospital HA-VTE Prophylaxis Guidelines Over a 10-Year Period, Elaine Fan MD, Deirdre Lewis MD, Thomas Presti MD, Nura El-Haj MD, and Weijen Chang MD

In search of the holy grail for growth: a real-time biomarker, Michele Gortakowski MD and Charlotte Boney MD

Novel Compound Heterozygous Mutations in ZAP70 Leading to a SCID Phenotype with Normal Downstream In vitro Signaling, Kelsey Kaman MD

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in U.S. Children and Adolescents, Kimberly Marohn MD

Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Christine McKiernan MD

Unintentional Window Falls in Children and Adolescents, Christine McKiernan MD and Deirdre Lewis MD

Transmitted Home Oximetry and Duration of Home Oxygen in Premature Infants, Kathleen Meyer MD

Defining the role of advanced care practitioners in pediatric surgery practice, Kevin Moriarty MD

Subspecialization in pediatric surgery: Results of a survey to the American Pediatric Surgical Association, Kevin Moriarty MD

Subspecialization in pediatric surgery: Results of a survey to the American Pediatric Surgical Association, Kevin Moriarty MD

Increasing incidence of complicated appendicitis during COVID-19 pandemic, Georgios Orthopoulos MD, Elizabeth Santone MD, Francesca Izzo MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Aixa Caraballo MD, Nicole Corriveau, and Nicolas Jabbour MD

Engagement in Early Intervention Services Among Mothers in Recovery From Opioid Use Disorders, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD, Molly Senn-McNally MD, Maria Carolina Clark, Briana Jurkowski, and Peter Friedmann MD

We All Need a Little TLC: An Argument for an Increased Role of Child Life Services in Patient Care and Medical Education, Rajapillai Pillai

Infantile presentation of 3q26.33-3q27.2 deletion syndrome, Renee Robilliard DO and Mustafa Caylan MD

Twin-to-twin Transmission of Transient Abnormal Myelopoiesis Without Constitutional Trisomy 21: A Case Report, Alexander Roseman, Shubham Bakshi, Lisa Grady, Mary-Alice Abbott MD, Sajjad Hassan, John Hunt MD, Matthew Richardson MD, and Rachana Singh MD

Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Neonates Randomized to Morphine or Methadone for Treatment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Jeffrey Shenberger MD

A quality improvement initiative to implement the eat, sleep, console neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome care tool in Massachusetts' PNQIN collaborative, Rachana Singh MD

PediTools Electronic Growth Chart Calculators: Applications in Clinical Care, Research, and Quality Improvement, Rachana Singh MD

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal and Infant Outcomes Among Opioid-Exposed Mother-Infant Dyads in Massachusetts (2017-2019), Rachana Singh MD

Considerations for the outpatient practice in pediatric surgery during the novel SARS-CoV-2Pandemic, Michael Tirabassi MD

Which Mothers Know That All Babies Cry? A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Child Abuse Prevention Program for Low-Income New Mothers, Marcia VanVleet MD

Primary adrenal insufficiency in two siblings with D-bifunctional protein deficiency, Ricardo Villalba

Submissions from 2019 2019

GAA Variants and Phenotypes Among 1079 Patients with Pompe Disease: Data from the Pompe Registry, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess in the Pediatric Population: Report of a Novel Pathogenic Variant of the 11β-HSD2 Gene and Systematic Review of the Literature, Adam Adamidis MD, Anna Tsirka MD, Mary-Alice Abbott MD, Paul Visintainer, and Ksenia Tonyushkina MD

Early signs of microvascular complications in pediatric patients with short duration of type 1 diabetes mellitus seen in southeast Nigeria, Holley Allen MD

Early signs of microvascular complications in pediatric patients with short duration of type 1 diabetes mellitus seen in southeast Nigeria, Holley Allen MD

Society of Hospital Medicine Position on the American Board of Pediatrics Response to the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Petition, Weijen Chang MD

Implementing a Novel Quality Improvement-Based Approach to Data Quality Monitoring and Enhancement in a Multipurpose Clinical Registry, Barry Hirsch MD

Identification of High-Yield Targets for Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Efforts Within a Nonfreestanding Children's Hospital, James Klatte MD, Alex Knee, Frank Szczerba PharmD, Evan Horton, Kathleen Kopcza, and Donna Fisher MD

Caregiver Medication Management and Understanding After Pediatric Hospital Discharge, Christine Marrese

Care coordination for children with medical complexity, Jack Maypole and Matthew Sadof

Why a Pelvic Exam is Needed to Diagnose Cervicitis and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Kathleen Mealey MD, Paula Braverman MD, and Laura Koenigs MD

Adolescent vaccinations: updates for the general practitioner, Kathleen Mealey MD and Laura Koenigs MD

Early Intervention Referral and Enrollment Among Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD, Sheila Foss, Donna M. Wilson, Peter Friedmann MD, Paul Visintainer, and Rachana Singh MD

Successful bilateral thoracoscopic sympathectomy for recurrent ventricular arrhythmia in a pediatric patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Joshua Price and Anna Tsirka MD

The Challenge of Defining and Investigating the Causes of Idiopathic Short Stature and Finding an Effective Therapy, Edward Reiter MD

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Complex Care Coordination Program in a Small Setting, Matthew Sadof

The role of recombinant human CC10 in the prevention of chronic pulmonary insufficiency of prematurity, Jeffrey Shenberger MD

Addressing Disparities in Mother's Milk for VLBW Infants Through Statewide Quality Improvement, Rachana Singh MD

Antecedents of epilepsy and seizures among children born at extremely low gestational age, Rachana Singh MD and Bhavesh Shah MD

Ectopic ACTH Syndrome in a Child With Abdominal Ewing Sarcoma: A Rare Paraneoplastic Phenomenon, Rishita Tiwari MD, Barbara Greco MD, and Matthew Richardson MD

Use of acetaminophen for patent ductus arteriosus treatment: a single center experience, Ruben Vaidya MD, Donna M. Wilson, Yvonne Paris MD, Laura Madore MD, and Rachana Singh MD

Submissions from 2018 2018

Natural history and genotype-phenotype correlations in 72 individuals with SATB2-associated syndrome, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

Nephrolithiasis and Nephrocalcinosis From Topiramate Therapy in Children With Epilepsy, Sarah Barnett MD, Anthony Jackson MD, Beth Rosen MD, Jane Garb, and Gregory Braden M.D.

Things We Do for No Reason - The "48 Hour Rule-out" for Well-Appearing Febrile Infants, Weijen Chang MD

Prevalence of cranial MRI findings in girls with central precocious puberty: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Jane Garb and Holley Allen MD

Implementation and Impact of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at a Non-freestanding Children's Hospital, James Klatte MD, Kathleen Kopcza, Alex Knee, Evan Horton, Erica Housman, and Donna Fisher MD

Clinical outcomes following identification of tip appendicitis on ultrasonography and CT scan, Briana Leung MD, Nikhil Madhuripan MD, Katharine Bittner, Vida Rastegar, Gregory Banever MD, David Tashjian MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, Stanley Polansky MD, and Michael Tirabassi MD

Rapidly involuting congenital haemangioma of the liver, Deirdre Lewis MD, Kevin Hachey MD, Shannon Fitzgerald MD, and Ruben Vaidya MD

Hemangioma, Hepatic, Deirdre Lewis MD and Ruben Vaidya MD

Kasabach Merritt Syndrome, Deirdre Lewis MD and Ruben Vaidya MD

The optimization of home oxygen weaning in premature infants trial: Design, rationale, methods, and lessons learned, Kathleen Meyer MD

A Novel Macroscale Acoustic Device for Blood Filtration, Maria Carmen Mora MD, Alexandre Dufresne, Katharine Bittner, Carolanne Lovewell, and Michael Tirabassi MD

Single incision laparoscopic proficiency correlates with residency training level, Maria Carmen Mora MD, Kaitlyn Wong MD, Gladys Fernandez M.D., and Michael Tirabassi MD

A Brief History of Pediatric Exercise Physiology, Thomas Rowland

A Patient-Centered Measure Reduction Strategy: Three Lenses of Value, Matthew Sadof

Accuracy of the Bayley-II mental development index at 2 years as a predictor of cognitive impairment at school age among children born extremely preterm, Bhavesh Shah MD and Rachana Singh MD

Among Children Born Extremely Preterm a Higher Level of Circulating Neurotrophins Is Associated with Lower Risk of Cognitive Impairment at School Age, Bhavesh Shah MD, Rachana Singh MD, Anne Smith, Deborah Klein, and Susan McQuiston MD

Comparison of Safety and Efficacy of Methadone vs Morphine for Treatment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Jeffrey Shenberger MD

Televisits to Partially Substitute for Clinic Visits Are Feasible and Well Accepted by Tech-Savvy Patients With T1DM and Their Families: A Prospective Pilot Study, Ksenia Tonyushkina MD, Victoria Cobb MD, Alexander Moskovitz MD, and Holley Allen MD

Hospital to Home: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Implement High-fidelity Simulation Training for Caregivers of Children Requiring Long-term Mechanical Ventilation, Kathleen Ventre MD

Evaluation of Rhodiola crenulata on growth and metabolism of NB-1691, an MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma cell line, Kaitlyn Wong MD, Maria Carmen Mora MD, Nazeen Sultana, Kevin Moriarty MD, Richard Arenas MD, Nagendra Yadava PhD, Sallie Schneider PhD, and Michael Tirabassi MD

A Cohort Study of the Natural History of Odontoid Pseudoarthrosis Managed Nonoperatively in Elderly Patients, Rifat Zaman MD

Submissions from 2017 2017

Pediatric Diabetes Outpatient Center at Rhode Island Hospital: The impact of changing initial diabetes education from inpatient to outpatient, Charlotte Boney MD

Response to Growth hormone deficiency in mitochondrial disorders, Charlotte Boney MD

Case of a girl due for human papillomavirus immunization, Paula Braverman MD

Type 3 renal tubular acidosis associated with growth hormone deficiency, Jane Garb, Holley Allen MD, Edward Reiter MD, Thomas Campfield MD, and Gregory Braden M.D.

Effects of an enhanced primary care program on diabetes outcomes, Sarah Goff MD, Alex Knee, Haley Guhn-Knight, Audrey Guhn, and Peter Lindenauer

Insulinoma masquerading as a loss of consciousness in a teenage girl: case report and literature review, Meghana Gudala MD, Mohammed Ahmed MD, Rushika Conroy MD, and Ksenia Tonyushkina MD

Effects of Donor Breastmilk Feeding on Growth and Early Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants: An Observational Study, Laura Madore MD

Inconsistencies in Outcomes of Donor Breast Milk for Preterm Infants, Laura Madore MD

Laparoscopic Pediatric Inguinal Hernia Repair: A Pilot Study in a Novel Guinea Pig Animal Model, Maria Carmen Mora MD, Katharine Bittner, Kaitlyn Wong MD, Kevin Moriarty MD, David Tashjian MD, and Michael Tirabassi MD

Health Beliefs and the Developmental Treatment Cascade, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD

Primary Care Interventions for Early Childhood Development: A Systematic Review, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD

School-Based Disaster Recovery: Promotion of Children's Mental Health Over the Long Haul, Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers MD

Normative Values for Cardiorespiratory Fitness Testing Among US Children Aged 6-11 Years, Thomas Rowland

New body composition reference charts for preterm infants, Jeffrey Shenberger MD

Tube Feeding in Children, Sarita Singhal

Ureteric transection secondary to penetrating handlebar injury, David Tashjian MD, Michael Tirabassi MD, Robert Gaffey, and Jeffry Nahmias MD

Submissions from 2016 2016

Juvenile Fibromyalgia: A Primary Pain, or Pain Processing, Disorder, Peter Blier MD

Efficacy of growth hormone therapy in Kearns-Sayre syndrome: the KIGS experience, Charlotte Boney MD

Reply, Stephen Boos MD

Premature pubarche in a child with abnormal 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase function and Klinefelter syndrome: the intriguing relationship between androgen deficiency and excess, Michele Gortakowski MD, Rushika Conroy MD, Luisa Aguiar MD, and Holley Allen MD

Nurses' Perceptions of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Environment and Work Experience After Transition to Single-Patient Rooms, Ebaa Jastaniah