4 Topic Commentaries

Top 10 evidence-based essentials in pediatrics

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  Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH

  Pediatrics

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  Seattle Children’s Research Institute

  The key to successful office-based health promotion and prevention programs is to prioritize evidence-based practices and recommendations that parents already have a predilection to follow.

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  Eliana M. Perrin, MD, MPH

  General Pediatrics

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  Johns Hopkins University

  From this large study, we learned that a relatively simple intervention in pediatric offices really helps parents keep their children safe. TIPP uses what we know about how children develop to tailor the advice we give to parents at each stage, and it works.

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  Bill Hanage, PhD

  Epidemiology

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  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  We should of course continue to collect evidence so we can make good decisions. That said, there is already an enormous body of research on these vaccines, and the evidence it has provided has always informed the U.S. pediatric vaccine schedule. Or at least it used to.

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  Shavon Artis Dickerson, DrPH, MPH

  Public Health

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  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH

  We want to make sure everyone who cares for a baby knows that an infant should be placed in a safe sleep environment for every sleep time, including naps. So it's important that a baby is put to sleep on his or her back, with nothing else in the baby's sleep area, no loose blankets, nothing covering—anything that could cover the baby's mouth or nose, or head—no toys, stuffed animals—nothing in the baby's sleep area, and making sure that the baby is placed on a firm mattress.

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