What matters most - what parents model or what parents eat?

Learning: what matters most.

Dr Jensen is a leader known nationally and internationally for her scholarly contributions related to expert practice, clinical reasoning, professional ethics, and educational theory and application. Although her vision and work often center on physical therapy, she reaches beyond the profession to have an impact on health professions and higher education more broadly. She has served on several...

Measuring What Matters Most

Jeffrey Lucas Deputy Director, Baldrige National Quality Program What happens when a K‐12 school system sets a goal beyond meeting the minimum state and federal standards for student achievement, and instead commits to “Igniting a Passion for Learning”? In the case of Iredell‐Statesville Schools (I‐SS) in North Carolina, a 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient with over 22,000...

Why do physicians think parents expect antibiotics? What parents report vs what physicians believe.

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between parent expectations for antibiotics, parent communication behaviors, and physicians' perceptions of parent expectations for antibiotics. STUDY DESIGN A nested cross-sectional study with parallel measures of parents presenting children for acute respiratory infections (previsit) and physicians (postvisit) and audiotaping of the encounters. POPULATION...

What matters most in pediatric familial hypercholesterolemia, genotype or phenotype?

Support for parents of children with anorexia: what parents want.

Parents' encounters with health professionals can influence their ability to cope with having a daughter with anorexia nervosa. Using qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 24 parents, we examine the question "What support do parents of teenage girls with anorexia want from clinicians?" The analysis shows that parents wanted clinicians to include them in treatment, support and guide t...