| Requests for primary care doctors, defined as family physicians, internists and pediatricians, increased 23 percent over the previous 12-month period examined in the survey. |
| The more experienced pediatricians favored the hospital discharge summary or communication with the child's neonatologist for this information. |
| This observation prompts pediatricians to give newborns a healthy shot of vitamin K to lower the 1 percent risk of spontaneous bleeding they would otherwise face. |
| Hispanic children are diagnosed with autism less often and later than other children, and a recent study looked at the role pediatricians may play in the delay. |
| The NAS committee comprised pediatricians, chemists, developmental biologists, and food scientists. |
| Infants in these nurseries may be managed by family physicians and general pediatricians who later continue their care in the ambulatory setting. |
