The Effect of Well Child Visit Location on Preventative Dental Visit

Fathers and the well-child visit.

OBJECTIVE Societal and economic shifts have expanded the roles that fathers play in their families. Father involvement is associated with positive cognitive, developmental, and sociobehavioral child outcomes such as improved weight gain in preterm infants, improved breastfeeding rates, higher receptive language skills, and higher academic achievement. However, father involvement in health care ...

Timing of initial well-child visit and readmissions of newborns.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Recommendations for the timing of the first well-child visit (WCV) after discharge from a well-baby nursery (WBN) suggest that the visit occur within 48 hours of discharge for those with a WBN length of stay of ≤48 hours and within 3 to 5 days for those with a WBN length of stay of >48 hours. The purpose of these early visits is to detect conditions that may cause read...

The age one dental visit: information on the web.

As consumers increasingly turn to the Internet as a health resource it is likely that parents may seek information on the recommended age for a first dental visit. A meta-search engine was used to determine whether a parent would find available, accessible, and authoritative information when seeking this recommendation. Of 47 "hits" on the phrase "first dental visit", only 2 were associated wit...

Effect of preoperative anaesthetic visit on anxiety.

Anxiety levels measured in patients who received preoperative reassurance about anaesthesia from a member of the hospital staff were significantly lower than those in a control group given no such support. Anxiety levels in patients who read a booklet designed to reassure about anaesthesia were less significantly reduced. Owing to the increasing work load in the operating theatre many anaesthet...

Year one dental visit--for whose benefit?