Minnesota Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics

Resources and links for your practice on a variety of topics:

H1N1
Professional and HIT Education
Patient Education
Pediatric Obesity
Vaccines
Patient-Centered Care
Clinical Resources
Referrals

Mental Health and Development Screening
Lead
Growth and Nutrition
Decision Support
Commercial Applications
EMR
Just for Fun

H1N1

Your latest info on H1N1 from the CDC and MN Dept of Health

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Professional and HIT Education

http://www.amia.org/10x10/partners/acp
Informatics education 10X10 –AMIA

http://www.abms.org
American Board of Medical Specialties

http://www.scocit.org/
AAP Council on Clinical Informatics (COCIT)

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/
AAP Policy Statements

http://www.cmelist.com/pediatrics.htm
Online pediatric CME - excellent

http://www.childrensnational.org/pdas/
Pediatrics on Hand – PDA resources

http://www.ihi.umn.edu/seminars/home.html
University of MN Health Informatics Seminars

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Patient Education

www.kidshealth.com
Excellent- why do more?

Lead poisoning prevention and other health messages to non-English
www.echominnesota.org

www.immunizationed.org/Downloads/per.wav
Pertussis cough

http://spiral.tufts.edu:80/index.html
Foreign language WCC and patient info

http://www.aap.org/audio/main.cfm
Minute for Kids- AAP

http://www.aap.org/parents.html
AAP Parenting Corner

www.dbpeds.org/handouts
AAP Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

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Pediatric Obesity

http://www.aap.org/obesity/whitehouse/
This link has a number of resources, including the template Rx for healthy living in English and Spanish.

http://www.aap.org/obesity/index.html
Great information from AAP on pediatric obesity

http://www.healthiergeneration.org/healthcareprofessionals.aspx
Information for parents and families.

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Vaccines

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/default.htm
Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedules

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/scheduler/catchup.htm
Catch up Scheduler

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/default.htm
Vaccine Information Sheets

http://www.fda.gov/CBER/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#t3.
Thimersol Content of Vaccines from FDA

http://immunize.org/reports/
Immunization Coalition Vaccine Preventable Diseases Case Reports

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Patient-Centered Care

www.mnaap.org/projects.htm
Information and webinars about health care homes in Minnesota

www.patientsafety.org
Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS)

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mcshn/discond.htm
MDH MSHCN

http://www.childhealthdata.org/content/Default.aspx
Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health – all the stats you would want to know

http://www.mnhealthcare.org/~Display.cfm
How are the health plans doing?

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Clinical Resources

www.generalpediatrics.com
Free and great

http://www.clinicalevidence.com/ceweb/resources/index.jsp
Also free and great -evidence based resource

http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ppipix.htm#tools
Preventive care tools –AHRQ

http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm
Orange Book- FDA's everything you need to know about prescription and non-prescription drugs

www.poison.org
From 61 national Poison Centers, you can reach the Poison Center that serves you

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Referrals

http://www.mmaonline.net/cvweb/membersearch.shtml#
MMA Physician Finder

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Mental Health and Development Screening

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=614864
Commonwealth Fund Toolkit for Developmental Screening-REEEly good

http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/idcplg?IdcService
Adolescent Mental Health Screening Tool

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mch/devscrn/instruments.html
MDH Developmental Screens

www.dbpeds.org
AAP Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics – excellent screening tools.

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Lead

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/lead/index.html
MN lead site

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Growth and Nutrition

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/childrens_BMI/about_childrens_BMI.htm
BMI from CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/
Growth curves

http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/Health_Information/Health_Information.aspx
Nutrition Supplements NIH

http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/toolkit/
interactive primer on reading nutrition labels

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Decision Support

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/hpcd/cdee/asthma/ActionPlan.html
Asthma Action Plan – at great effort by wonderful people at the MDH, this is available to download onto your computer, or to print without saving anything

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/org/cdbpm/pp/prog_epbo/epbo_case.cfm
Prematurity stats calculator

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnpabmi/Calculator.aspx
BMI calculator

http://www.asthmacontrol.com/child.html
Asthma Control Test

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/dpc/han/alert.html
Health alerts on E-mail by request-very helpful for facing patient questions the day of an announcement!

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Commercial Applications

http://www.trixietracker.com/
tracking newborn ins and outs

www.babycenter.com
Info to moms as they go through their pregnancy

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EMR

www.aapcocit.org/emr
EMR review site

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Just for fun

http://www.snorchestra.org/compositions.html
Self explanatory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
Homeopathic ER

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