OBJECTIVE In 2007 in Massachusetts, a settlement of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Medicaid beneficiaries mandated that primary care practices perform developmental, behavioral, and mental health screening using formal tools. The aim of this study was to assess perspectives from providers and practice staff about implementing developmental and mental health screening in response to the jud...

OBJECTIVE Neurometabolic disorder is one of the important groups of diseases that prominently has presentation early infantile period. In this study, we evaluated the result of metabolic screening of the patient with seizure, developmental delay and/or regression in development, demographic disease clinical and radiological findings on admitted and outpatient visited children. MATERIALS & MET...

OBJECTIVE The authors investigated perceptions of parents with children in the Head Start program about the processes of detection and intervention for developmental concerns. DESIGN Descriptive, qualitative study. SETTING A large, urban Head Start agency, operating 14 centers and annually serving more than 1200 predominantly Latino children. During 2008-2009, a collaborative partnership wi...

BACKGROUND Two strategies have been proposed for early identification of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD): (1) using a general screening tool followed by an ASD-specific screening tool for those who screen positive on the former or (2) using an ASD-specific tool for all children. The relative yield of these two strategies has not been examined. OBJECTIVES This study compared the ...

There is little agreement about what constitutes good developmental paediatric practice at the level of primary care. Many of the available screening tests are intrinsically unsatisfactory or badly performed, but screening is only a small part of developmental paediatrics. Every primary care doctor should be familiar with the scientific basis of the subject even if a decision is made not to emb...

OBJECTIVE To examine morbidity experience, pattern of nutrition status and development of the children born to HIV infected mothers under the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Program compared to the national standard. MATERIAL AND METHOD In 2008, births given by mothers under PMTCT in five selected hospitals of Health Region 4 of Thailand between 2002 and 2006 were identifie...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Latino-white disparities in age at autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis may be modified by primary care pediatrician (PCP) practices and beliefs. The objectives of this study were to assess ASD and developmental screening practices, attitudes toward ASD identification in Latino children, and barriers to ASD identification for Latino children, in a sample of 267 Cal...