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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:1243.

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We appreciate Dr Greenberg's reference to Dr Korsch's work on communication in pediatric visits. We wrote an article that highlighted and revisited the work of Dr Korsch and her colleagues, although it was in a health services research journal rather than one more focused on clinical pediatrics.¹ We pointed out that in the 30 years between her study and ours, little seemed to have changed in one important aspect of pediatric visits—the extent to which children participated. We also referred to Dr Korsch's work (and that of other investigators whose work inspired our own)^2-3 previously in the ARCHIVES.⁴

Dr Greenberg is correct in pointing out that we often have too short an institutional memory for important research. We miss the opportunity to act on forgotten findings and risk wasting research resources rediscovering rather than building on what has already been published. With the increasing availability of journals online, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Larry Wissow, MD, MPH
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, MD 21205

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