More than baby steps: perspectives on pediatric translational research.

Developmental specialists in pediatric practices: perspectives of clinicians and staff.

OBJECTIVE To investigate how introducing early child-development specialists (Healthy Steps Specialists) and enhanced developmental services into routine pediatric care affects perspectives of clinicians and staff. METHODS Self-administered questionnaires were completed at baseline and at 30 months by clinicians, clinical staff, and nonclinical staff at pediatric sites participating in the ev...

Ten steps to support parents' choice to breastfeed their baby. American Academy of Pediatrics Work Group on Breastfeeding.

Developmental screening in community health care centers and pediatric practices: an evaluation of the Baby Steps Program.

The Baby Steps Program (Easter Seals of New Hampshire, 2003) is a child-find program that introduces developmental specialists into health care settings to conduct developmental screenings with children during well-child visits. This article presents the Baby Steps Program model, summaries of screening and referral data, and the results of 3 focus groups designed to assess the viability of intr...

Broiler Production Explation–Steps to Start

There is nothing quite so helpless in this world as a baby broiler chick which has been snatched from the warmth of its surrogated mother, carted umpteen kilometers in a box dumped unceremoniously in a broiler shed and then told to get on with the job of making the boss a wealthy man. Yet within the space of 14 days, that same chick, under optimum conditions, will have increased its day-old bod...

Broiler Production Explation–Steps to Start

There is nothing quite so helpless in this world as a baby broiler chick which has been snatched from the warmth of its surrogated mother, carted umpteen kilometers in a box dumped unceremoniously in a broiler shed and then told to get on with the job of making the boss a wealthy man. Yet within the space of 14 days, that same chick, under optimum conditions, will have increased its day-old bod...