OBJECTIVE To examine the decisions of pediatric primary care physicians about their diagnostic evaluation for a child with suspected global developmental delay (GDD). STUDY DESIGN A survey was mailed to a sample of pediatricians (n = 600) and family physicians (n = 600) randomly selected from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile. The survey contained a clinical vignette descr...

background: prematurity is the most common cause of death and disability and preterm infants, are prone to developmental complications. for this reason this study was designed for follow up of these babies until 2 years by modified ddst-2. methods: this study was a prospective longitudinal descriptive study from march 2009 to march 2011 in clinic of sheikh and imam reza hospitals, mashhad, iran...

PURPOSE Several professional societies recommend that genetic testing be routinely included in the etiologic workup of children with developmental disabilities. The aim of this study was to determine the rate at which genetic testing is performed in this population, based on data from a nationally representative survey. METHODS Data were analyzed from the Survey of Pathways to Diagnosis and S...

Women with developmental disabilities are significantly less likely than women without disabilities to receive cervical and breast cancer screening according to clinical guidelines. The reasons for this gap are not understood. The present study examined the extent of women's knowledge about cervical and breast cancer screening, with the intention of informing the development and testing of inte...

CMAJ 2016. DOI:10.1503 /cmaj.151437 Developmental delay in children may be transitory or sustained and is characterized by a significant delay (i.e., performance 1.5 standard deviations or more below age-expected norms) in one or more of the following domains: gross and fine motor skills, speech and language, social and personal skills, activities of daily living and cognition.1,2 Children with...

There are several important messages for pediatricians concerned with what happens to patients after identification through newborn screening. Particularly important in many of the disorders are the developmental aspects of outcome. There are certain basic assumptions that are essential in improving developmental outcome as a result of newborn screening: 1) newborn screening leads to early case...

The purpose of this study is to examine the utility of developmental screening tests. I measured of developmental screening tests and compared with each test’s validity. This study was conducted to investigate their developmental delay by four developmental screening tests K-DIAL3, K-DDSTII, K-CDI and K-ASQ. When a child was included in the developmental delay class through a latent class analy...