Awards, Reviews, Statistics and Comments Book

Awards

• February 2009 - Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging

  "Virtual Pediatric Hospital focuses on topics that covers imaging of various disease entities in pediatrics."

• February 2008 - Journal of Clinical Pathology

  (Correlapaedia) - "Interdisciplinary discussion of 56 cases including radiology, surgery, and pathology"

• 2007 - Circuits for the MRCPCH

  "Good generic information with many practice scenarios."

• 2007 - Practical Paediatrics

  (Virtual Pediatric Patients) - "A useful case-based teacing resource for common paediatric problems."

• 2007 - Practical Paediatrics

  (Paediapaedia) - "An encyclopedia of paediatric disease with brief text notes, radiological images and differential diagnoses."

• August 2006 - Clinical Radiology

  "The use of handheld digital books in radiology was first pioneered by Michael D'Alessandro and colleagues in the mid-1990s."

• January 9, 2006 - Florida Times-Union

  "The goal of this Virtual Pediatric Hospital offering is to provide information about typical diseases and health issues experienced by teens...pediatricians address all sorts of teen-related health topics..."

• 1992-1993 - Data not available (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)

• 1994 - 34,026 pages read (page hits) from 8,346 visitors (users) in the form of 152,869 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 10 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 1995 - 112,731 pages read (page hits) from 29,171 visitors (users) in the form of 443,728 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 30 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 1996 - 293,072 pages read (page hits) from 75,313 visitors (users) in the form of 1,082,828 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 32 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 1997 - 540,174 pages read (page hits) from 115,105 visitors (users) in the form of 1,354,334 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 32 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 1998 - 1,047,135 pages read (page hits) from 213,947 visitors (users) in the form of 2,292,230 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 27 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 1999 - 2,076,896 pages read (page hits) from 317,081 visitors (users) in the form of 4,024,556 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 42 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 2000 - 3,143,361 pages read (page hits) from 868,651 visitors (users) in the form of 6,168,231 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 70 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 2001 - 2,963,683 pages read (page hits) from 881,378 visitors (users) in the form of 6,079,333 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 72 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 2002 - 3,866,892 pages read (page hits) from 1,435,969 visitors (users) in the form of 7,893,648 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 98 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 2003 - 3,801,080 pages read (page hits) from 1,586,129 visitors (users) in the form of 7,282,989 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 102 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 2004 - 4,081,945 pages read (page hits) from 1,720,883 visitors (users) in the form of 7,769,115 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 111 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 2005 - 4,029,534 pages read (page hits) from 1,738,463 visitors (users) in the form of 7,984,758 successful accesses (qualified hits) representing 118 gigabytes of data transferred (as part of Virtual Children's Hospital)
• 2006 - 2,332,358 pages read (page hits) from 513,183 visitors (users) representing 73 gigabytes of data transferred.
• 2007 - 1,700,957 pages read (page hits) from 539,034 visitors (users) representing 66 gigabytes of data transferred.
• 2008 - 834,549 pages read (page hits) from 307,986 visitors (users) representing 42 gigabytes of data transferred.
• 2009 - 586,041 pages read (page hits) from 232,450 visitors (users) representing 36 gigabytes of data transferred.

• February 4, 2010 - "I find your website clear, concise and easy to navigate...Thank you for your excellent website!" - D.S., Ph.D.
• January 23, 2010 - "Thanks for your great efforts." - C.D., M.D. (Attending radiologist)
• August 24, 2009 - "I have appreciated the large amount of clinical data that you two have accumulated and presented for us in an easy format." - J.H., M.B.B.S. (Pediatric surgeon, India)
• September 24, 2008 - "Excellent article and radiographs on Back Pain in Children !!! Thank you for taking the time to maintain this extremely valuable site." - M.C., M.D. (Regional Medical Officer, American Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya)
• September 18, 2008 - "Had a young 2 yr old this morning with long standing history of back pain affecting play ? weight bearing - found your site to be most helpful!!! I plan to use it frequently in the future - thanks so much for putting this together!! (I am finishing up my doctorate -great research tool that I will share with my colleagues!)" - A.S. (Pediatric physical therapist)
• May 19, 2008 - "I use the site to help me understand my children's learning difficulties. I really like the succinct presentation. I have a much greater understanding, particularly of my daughter's language delay and less guilt about it after reading your site." - I.S., Australia (Parent)
• February 29, 2008 - "Thank you for providing this article. We have struggled with this horrid condition for years. I feel now as though we have the correct diagnosis and can proceed with treatment and be partially free from the not knowing WHAT the problem is. We have had her in treatment and on medication for years. She is now 12 years old and your document describes her 100%. We will be forever grateful for discovering your article and will use it as our guide to maintaining some sense of sanity." - S.G. (Mother of a patient)
• October 26, 2007 - "I would like to thank you for creating such a wonderful educational website for people who are interested in pediatric radiology!" - E.L., M.D. (Attending pediatric radiologist)
• May 29, 2007 - "I am a parent whom is concerned about one of my children...From what I have read so far tonight this site has been fantastic. It was a great help for me to read the well set out and helpful information. Thank you for providing something like this for all to share." - G.W., Australia
• May 13, 2007 - "I use Virtual Pediatric Hospital in my profession. It is useful to support my profession and reference in lectures to medical students. I like Virtual Pediatric Hospital. It is excellent. Radiologic images quality are excellent and very informative. Thank you." - D.W., M.D., Indonesia (Attending radiologist)
• April 18, 2007 - "I like that you use a "ordinary language" so that even I can understand." - A.F., Sweden (Mother of patient)
• March 26, 2007 - "Thanks for your great work...I use it personally to check symptoms for my two children...I love the layout - it is very easy to find symptoms or diseases and match them against what my child is saying or doing..." - J.P. (Father of patient)
• January 23, 2007 - "Virtual Pediatric Hospital has given much information on low back pain in children. I have found this website to be easy to read, organized, and helpful in understanding the causes of low back pain in children." - R.J. (Mother of patient)
• January 5, 2007 - "I'm an RN working in a juvenile attention center and am finding your information extremely helpful. I have a medical director but using this information helps me make sure I am thinking and looking for the right things so I have the right information in hand in case I need to communicate with the medical director. I encounter common problems like URI and need to differentiate strep from the common sore throat. I have to work fairly independently so find this information very specific. Thank you for being thorough and including "survivor skills information"." - E.M., R.N.
• December 28, 2006 - "I just recently discovered your website and really enjoy it. It is a great tool for residents. Your surgical imagery is fantastic." - D.M., M.D. (Chief Resident in Pediatrics)
• December 12, 2006 - "We are foster parents who serve children with special needs...I have found the information you have shared to be interesting and informative." - G.M.
• November 17, 2006 - "I am just a concerned grandmother,who is worried abut her 19 month old granddaughter. I learned quite a bit about her blocked tear ducts. Thank you for a very informative website." - M.R.
• September 1, 2006 - "I love your site and I am selecting different xrays and cases to help teach my students pediatric chest xray interpretation...overall I think your site is great!" - M.M., RN, MS, PNP (Pediatric Nurse Practitioner)
• July 18, 2006 - "Sincere thanks for offering such great, practical information and creative educational tools. Your site is one of the first that I go to when I have questions about a pediatric medical condition. I have no recommendations for improvement, only kudos for the excellent work you do for those we serve. Mahalo." - C.K., R.N. (Maternal-Child Nurse Clinical Instructor)
• June 29, 2006 - "I am very impressed with the Virtual Pediatric Hospital site and have enjoyed it very much." - M.B., Ph.D. (Clinical Psychologist)
• March 25, 2006 - "Thank you for your informative site." - J.K., RN, Canada (Pediatric nurse)
• February 26, 2006 - "I like very much your Virtual Pediatric Hospital." - A.P., M.D., Peru
• January 16, 2006 - "I appreciate the fact that this site lives on...Virtual Hospital site was truly a very rich resource, and I'm sure the Virtual Pediatric Hospital site will continue in the same vein. I teach at a technical college in LaCrosse, WI, have used your site as a reference for many years. Our radiography students have benefited from this resource, also." - B.R. (Radiography Instructor)
• January 16, 2006 - "I must confess that I have been beniftting substantially from Virtual Pediatric Hospital...I recommend this publication to all paediatricians and those aspiring to join the league." - B.S.
• January 12, 2006 - "Looks great! Thanks!" - P.M.
• January 12, 2006 - "Keep up the good work." - H.H., M.D., Ghana (Attending physician)
• January 12, 2006 - "The students and faculty at our campus use these materials heavily." - R.S.
• January 11, 2006 - "I have been using your case presentations for discussion with my colleagues. Everyone praised the excellent photography. Looking forward to seeing more compilations of excellent cases." - N.N., M.D.
• January 10, 2006 - "Thank you. I've often referred to the site, as well as referred medical students on a rather regular basis." - P.P
• January 9, 2006 - "Looks like a lot of good information there." - C.K.