Pediatric morphine use in the hospital As with so many medications used widely to treat children, morphine is not labeled for pediatric use. Describing patterns of use helps us understand how many children are receiving a drug that is not approved for pediatric use by the FDA. A statistical analysis of 877,201 pediatric hospitalizations in […]
A Visual Medical Dictionary
With the Chi Visual Medical Dictionary, you can enter a disease or therapy and find all the terms it is related to, and retrieve a visualization of those relationships. For example, this is the image retrieved using the term “epilepsy”.
Storytelling to Communicate Information and Motivate Patients
The New York Times (February 10, 2011) covered the report of a randomized clinical trial in Annals of Internal Medicine suggesting that a storytelling intervention produced substantial and significant improvements in blood pressure in African-Americans with uncontrolled hypertension. The intervention consisted of 3 DVDs containing patient stories, and blood pressure measurements were taken at 3, […]
A Health Information Website Aimed at Children
The Great Ormond Street Hospital in England runs a website, Children First for Health. It has separate sections for Juniors (age 4 to 6), Kids (7 to 11) and Teens (12 to 18), as well as a section for parents. The Body Tour lets kids click on a body part or bone and learn more […]