After the recent economic recession, policy interventions including austerity measures led to reductions in government spending on health care in many countries. However, there is limited research into the effects of changes in government health care spending on child health.

Reductions in government health care spending are associated with long-lasting adverse effects on child health globally, especially in low-income countries. Given pressures to diminish health expenditures, we caution that reduced spending should be achieved through increased efficiency of care delivery. (Read the full article)

Concern exists about the ability of new general pediatricians to find jobs that match their career goals.

A large majority of new pediatricians secure positions consistent with their career goals and desired responsibilities. (Read the full article)

Outbreaks of serogroup B meningococcal disease occur at universities and other organizations. Until October 2014, options for control of serogroup B outbreaks were limited by the absence of a licensed vaccine for serogroup B meningococcal disease in the United States.

We describe a serogroup B outbreak at a university in 2013 and the campaign with investigational serogroup B vaccine held in response. This was the first use of a serogroup B vaccine as an outbreak response in the United States. (Read the full article)

Previous studies have shown that concomitant administration of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine with MCV4 and Tdap was generally well tolerated and did not interfere with the immune responses to the respective vaccines.

Concomitant administration of the novel 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine with MCV4 and Tdap, 2 vaccines that are currently recommended for routine vaccination of adolescents, did not compromise the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of the individual vaccines. (Read the full article)

Urologic outcomes of prenatal myelomeningocele closure have previously been reported. This study, however, represents a large, prospectively followed cohort of these patients and presents detailed findings of urologic outcomes. To our knowledge, this is the largest study of this type.

Our study is the only trial to compare urologic outcomes in children with myelomeningocele having undergone prenatal closure with those who had postnatal repair in a prospective and systematic manner. We report our findings at 12 and 30 months. (Read the full article)

There are no validated claims-based algorithms for identifying children with disabilities (CWD) to facilitate larger-scale studies of care quality for CWD.

This study develops the CWD algorithm, a claims-based algorithm for identifying diagnostic codes with a ≥75% chance of indicating CWD, and triangulates the algorithm against parent report and physician chart abstraction. (Read the full article)

Endotracheal intubation is a mandatory skill for neonatal trainees. It is a difficult skill to acquire, and success rates of junior doctors are low and falling.

Videolaryngoscopy allows the supervisor to share the intubator’s view of the airway and provide more informed guidance. Teaching intubation using a videolaryngoscope with the screen visible to the instructor results in significantly higher success rates for inexperienced doctors. (Read the full article)

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