Journal of AAPOS : the official publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
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To evaluate a clinical observation that prepubertal children with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) have low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein levels compared to healthy children and pubertal patients with IIH. ⋯ Low CSF protein level may have diagnostic utility as a biomarker for prepubertal IIH. Furthermore, this finding suggests that some cases of prepubertal IIH may be caused by CSF overproduction rather than decreased CSF resorption.
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To measure the effect of electronic health record (EHR) implementation on productivity and efficiency in the pediatric ophthalmology division at an academic medical center. ⋯ EHR implementation was associated with a negative impact on productivity and efficiency in our pediatric ophthalmology division.