Rickey L. Williams

Use of the eating attitudes test and eating disorder inventory in adolescents

The Eating Attitudes Test and the Eating Disorder Inventory were developed to measure abnormal eating attitudes and behaviors in patients with eating disorders. This report describes each of these self-report questionnaires and outlines their functions, limitations, and previous use with adolescent subjects.

Office laboratory procedures, office economics, patient and parent education, and urinary tract infection

This section updates the reader on four important areas of office practice: office laboratory procedures, office economics, patient and parent education, and urinary tract infections. Dr. Michael Aldous reviews the recent literature about office laboratory procedures, including the continued impact of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Ammendments, what is new in the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis, urinalysis improvements, the diagnosis of anemia, and which patients should undergo cholesterol screening. Dr. Rickey Williams discusses the literature on office economics, including new technology for billing and charting, whether pediatricians should bill for telephone calls, and the latest information on health care policy and the changes offices are facing with the growing managed care market. Dr. Burris Duncan reviews patient and parent education, including new apporaches to infant colic, sleep positioning for the prevention of sudden infant death, the need for the hepatitis B vaccine (which has been slowly implemented), and finally ways that pediatricians can help with parenting. Dr. John Ey discusses the recent literature on urinary tract infections in children, including better ways of making the diagnosis, whether there are any new treatment approaches for urinary tract infections, useful investigational studies for evaluating the urinary system, and how best to follow up children with infected urinary tracts. We hope that this review will help the practicing pediatrician to better care for patients and provide each of you with a greater satisfaction in delivering health care in an office setting.

Office laboratory procedures, economics of practice, patient and parent education, and urinary tract infection.

This review highlights recent advances in four major areas that are relevant to office practice: office laboratory procedures, economics of practice, adolescent risk-taking behavior in terms of sexually transmitted diseases, and urinary tract infections. Who should be screened for diseases and where these screening tests should be done are addressed, keeping the practicing pediatrician in mind. Next we review current office economics, including whether professional courtesy should be continued, how our practices are going to be increasingly influenced by guidelines developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, and the new Clinton Health Plan if it survives Congress, and finally how all of these issues will affect our expected income in the years ahead. As pediatricians strive to retain adolescent patients in their practices, they will need to find appropriate ways of counseling these patients concerning risk behaviors that could result in sexually transmitted diseases or HIV infections. Should we leave the comfortable confines of our offices to participate in these counseling programs for adolescents, and are there lessons from existing successful International Health Programs that we can use? Finally, urinary tract infections (UTIs) continue to be a common cause of childhood infections with possible serious long-term sequelae. Can we do a better job of diagnosing UTIs, has improved treatment become available, and is prevention of recurrences possible? Once the diagnosis has been made, how can we best evaluate these children with UTIs for underlying urologic abnormalities? It is our hope that the practicing pediatrician will be better prepared to face these issues having read this review.

Office pediatrics: Office laboratory procedures, Office economics, Patient and parent education, and Urinary tract infection

&NA; This section updates the reader on four important areas of office practice: office laboratory procedures, office economics, patient and parent education, and urinary tract infections. Dr. Micheal Aldous reviews the recent literature about office laboratory procedures, including the continued impact of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Ammendments, what is new in the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis, urinalysis improvements, the diagnosis of anemia, and which patients should undergo cholesterol screening. Dr. Rickey Williams discusses the literature on office economics, including new technology for billing and charting, whether pediatricians should bill for telephone calls, and the latest information on health care policy and the changes offices are facing with the growing managed care market. Dr. Burris Duncan reviews patient and parent education, including new apporaches to infant colic, sleep positioning for the prevention of sudden infant death, the need for the hepatitis B vaccine (which has been slowly implemented), and finally ways that pediatricians can help with parenting. Dr. John Ey discusses the recent literature on urinary tract infections in children, including better ways of making the diagnosis, whether there are any new treatment approaches for urinary tract infections, useful investigational studies for evaluating the urinary system, and how best to follow up children with infected urinary tracts. We hope that this review will help the practicing pediatrician to better care for patients and provide each of you with a greater satisfaction in delivering health care in an office setting.

Encounters With Children: Pediatric Behavior and Development

How many of us can remember wading through textbooks of child development only to become frustrated when we failed to see how to put the information to practical use? Encounters with Children offers a new approach to the study of child behavior and development that will be especially appealing to pediatricians and other child health care providers. The authors have followed the recommended schedule of health maintenance visits outlined by the American Academy of Pediatrics and have selected one or more aspects of development to discuss at each visit. For example, the chapter corresponding to the 18-month-old well-child visit discusses assertiveness, discipline, and toilet training. Methods for data gathering, history taking, and physical examination are described for each age, and anticipatory guidance is discussed. This book can be used in several ways. Before seeing a child for a well visit, the physician- or nurse-in-training can review the chapter specific to

Childhood: The First Six Years

Childhood : The First Six Years is another of many books written to help parents understand the physical and developmental changes that occur during this period. The author, a French pediatrician, has divided the book into three main sections. The first section describes normal development. For each age, topics, such as feeding, behavior, communication, elimination, and bathing, are discussed. The second section deals with potential problems, including sleeping difficulties, toilet training, and stealing. The third section is devoted to childhood illnesses. Illustrations of children at different ages add to the books attractiveness. Major flaws make this book unacceptable to American parents. Cohen, the author, was the coauthor of a previous book, Your Baby , which describes birth and the neonatal period. He has assumed that parents already have a copy of Your Baby , because the present book starts with the second month of life rather than with birth. Descriptions of child development