Advances in Pediatrics reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide pediatricians and primary care providers with the current clinical information they need to improve patient outcomes. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Carol Berkowitz, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in pediatrics inform and enhance clinical practice by bringing concepts to a clinical level and exploring their everyday impact on patient care.
Key Features
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Contains over 15 articles on such topics as Management of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia; Children and the US Juvenile Legal System; Novel Approaches to Patients with Differences of Sex Development; Pectus Disorders; Pediatric Immune Thrombocytopenia; and more.
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Provides in-depth, clinical reviews in pediatrics, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information in the field under the leadership of an experienced editorial team. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
Author Information
Edited by Carol Berkowitz; Jane Carver, PhD, MS, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Molecular
Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida; Ronald Hirschl, MD and Surendra Varma, MD, Texas Tech University of Health Sciences
Providing Compassionate, Evidence-Based Care for Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Children
Understanding the Negative Effect of Stigma: A Pediatrician’s Guide to Employing Anti-stigma Language/Care to Improve Engagement and Outcomes
Childhood Behind Bars: Children and the US Juvenile Legal System
A Review of Community-Based Gun Violence Prevention Programs and the Physician’s Role
Maternal Postpartum Depression Screening and Early Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Eating Disorders: All that a Pediatrician Should Know
Preventing Behavioral Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections in Adolescents and Young Adults
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Epidemiology, Burden of Disease, and Clinical Update
Etiology of the Neonatal Hypoglycemias
Current Advances in the Management of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Novel Approaches to Patients with Differences of Sex Development
Common Pediatric Urologic Conditions: Contemporary Management of Cryptorchidism, the Retractile Testis, and Phimosis
Pectus Disorders: Excavatum, Carinatum and Arcuatum
Approach to Constipation in Children: Recommendations for Evaluation and Management
Overview of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases
Pediatric Immune Thrombocytopenia