title: Office laboratory procedures, office economics, parenting and parent education, and urinary tract infection.
abstract: We once again review four areas of interest to office-based pediatricians: office laboratory procedures, office economics, parenting and patient education, and urinary tract infections. Sean Elliott reviews the current status of the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and their continuing impact on physician office laboratories. Eve Shapiro reviews office economics, this year focusing on managed care, the physician workforce, practice management, and health care financing for the uninsured. Anna Binkiewicz provides an update on parenting and parent education, with recent reports on nutrition and childhood immunizations. Richard Wahl again reviews recent research on urinary tract infection, discussing voiding physiology, dysfunctional voiding patterns, acute urinary retention, urine collection techniques, diagnosis in young infants, and antibiotic prophylaxis.
authors.affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine and Steele Memorial Children's Research Center, Tucson, Arizona 85724-5073, USA. rwahl@peds.arizona.edu
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Wahl
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Elliott
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Binkiewicz
mesh_terms: D019072:Antibiotic Prophylaxis; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D016487:Parenting; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics; D013048:Specimen Handling; D016055:Urinary Retention; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000503:physiopathology; D014563:Urodynamics