Improving Discharge Efficiency in Medically Complex Pediatric Patients.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The goals of this study were to (1) develop an approach to ascertain birth asphyxia deaths by using verbal autopsy data from a community-based setting in Nepal, and (2) explore variations in birth asphyxia mortality fractions by using different birth asphyxia case definitions and hierarchical classifications...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lee AC,Mullany LC,Tielsch JM,Katz J,Khatry SK,LeClerq SC,Adhikari RK,Shrestha SR,Darmstadt GL

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether pediatric health care providers recognize maternal depressive symptoms and to explore whether maternal, provider, and visit characteristics affect pediatric providers' ability to recognize inner-city mothers with depressive symptoms. DESIGN:A cross-sectional study was conducted at a hosp...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Heneghan AM,Silver EJ,Bauman LJ,Stein RE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies of US adolescents have linked exposure to movie smoking with smoking behavior. It is unclear whether European adolescents are also responsive to movie tobacco imagery. METHODS:A longitudinal study was conducted to assess exposure to movie smoking in 2711 German never-smokers (aged 10 to 16 years). Mo...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hanewinkel R,Sargent JD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This policy statement, which recognizes the large changes in immigrant status since publication of the 2005 statement "Providing Care for Immigrant, Homeless, and Migrant Children," focuses on strategies to support the health of immigrant children, infants, adolescents, and young adults. Homeless children will be addr...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Council on Community Pediatrics.

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Questionnaires were used to survey 1,435 parents and 446 physicians in order to determine and compare attitudes and beliefs about enuresis. Although both groups thought that bed-wetting is a maturational problem, the parent group thought emotional causes were important and were less likely to accept small bladder size...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Shelov SP,Gundy J,Weiss JC,McIntire MS,Olness K,Staub HP,Jones DJ,Haque M,Ellerstein NS,Heagarty MC,Starfield B

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Abdominal obesity may be a better predictor than overall obesity for the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Waist circumference and waist-height ratio are 2 simple, yet effective, surrogate measures of abdominal obesity. We sought to examine the recent trends in mean waist circumference and ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Li C,Ford ES,Mokdad AH,Cook S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has dramatically improved the survival of neonates with life-threatening respiratory and cardiac failure. However, ECMO requires numerous transfusions with significant risks. This study evaluated the effects of changing transfusion practices and blood component manag...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rosenberg EM,Chambers LA,Gunter JM,Good JA

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this work was to compare the efficacy of propofol, a hypnotic agent, to the regimen of morphine, atropine, and suxamethonium as an induction agent for nonemergency neonatal endotracheal intubation. We hypothesized that propofol aids intubation by allowing the continuation of spontaneous breath...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ghanta S,Abdel-Latif ME,Lui K,Ravindranathan H,Awad J,Oei J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Skin tests with soluble beta-lactams can be used to diagnose immediate and delayed hypersensitivity (HS) reactions to beta-lactam antibiotics. Very few studies have been performed with children with suspected beta-lactam allergy. In these studies, immediate HS to beta-lactams was diagnosed by skin tests in 4...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ponvert C,Le Clainche L,de Blic J,Le Bourgeois M,Scheinmann P,Paupe J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain at least an initial understanding of the underlying beliefs and attitudes in a cross-cultural situation, we believe that the three key points discussed in this paper should prove a significant point of departure: 1. Traditional beliefs about the cause of chronic illness or disability will play a significant ro...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Groce NE,Zola IK

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Residential exposures are recognized risk factors for childhood asthma, but the relative contribution of specific risk factors and the overall contribution of housing to asthma in US children is unknown. The objective of this study was to identify risk factors and estimate the population attributable risk of ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lanphear BP,Aligne CA,Auinger P,Weitzman M,Byrd RS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Digital technologies offer new platforms for health promotion and disease management. Few studies have evaluated the use of digital technology among families receiving care in an urban pediatric primary care setting. METHODS:A self-administered survey was given to a convenience sample of caregivers bringing ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Demartini TL,Beck AF,Klein MD,Kahn RS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Few prospective studies have examined separate forms of screen time in relation to adiposity. Our objective was to assess independent relations of television, electronic games (video/computer), and digital versatile disc (DVD)/videos and total screen time with change in adolescent BMI. METHODS:Using data fro...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Falbe J,Rosner B,Willett WC,Sonneville KR,Hu FB,Field AE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 1 out of 5 children worldwide suffers from childhood malnutrition or stunting and associated health conditions, including an increased susceptibility to infections and inflammation. Due to improved early interventions, most children even in low-resource settings now survive early childhood malnutrition, ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Galler JR,Koethe JR,Yolken RH

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Both the social environment and the physical environment are increasingly recognized as important to childhood diseases such as asthma. This study tested a novel hypothesis: that living in areas high in greenspace may help buffer the effects of difficult family relationships for children with ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Chen E,Miller GE,Shalowitz MU,Story RE,Levine CS,Hayen R,Sbihi H,Brauer M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between sweet drink consumption and overweight among preschool children. METHODS:A retrospective cohort design was used to examine the association between sweet drink consumption and overweight at follow-up among 10904 children who were aged 2 and 3 years and had height, weight, an...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Welsh JA,Cogswell ME,Rogers S,Rockett H,Mei Z,Grummer-Strawn LM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal storage disorders are rare inborn errors of metabolism, with a combined incidence of 1 in 1500 to 7000 live births. These relatively rare disorders are seldom considered when evaluating a sick newborn. A significant number of the >50 different lysosomal storage disorders, however, do manifest in the neonatal...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Staretz-Chacham O,Lang TC,LaMarca ME,Krasnewich D,Sidransky E

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine use of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), available since 2000, has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) attributable to serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae contained in the vaccine. However, IPD caused by nonvaccine pneumococcal serotypes ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases.

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Milk volume, day of initiation of pumping, duration and frequency of milk expression, and length of night rest interval were evaluated for the first month postpartum in 32 healthy, nonsmoking women (ages 20 to 38 years) who delivered at 28 to 30 weeks' gestation. Early milk volumes were related negatively to the delay...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hopkinson JM,Schanler RJ,Garza C

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We tested the hypothesis that survival is highest for infants born in the same weight range whether mothers are adolescent or adult, comparing the weights at which infants of these mothers achieve lowest neonatal mortality. METHODS:The relationship between birth weight and neonatal mortality was studied in b...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Rees JM,Lederman SA,Kiely JL

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical response of atypical mycobacterial cervical adenitis to standard antituberculous therapy has been disappointing. Surgical procedures in the anterior cervical triangle are difficult and often complete excision is impossible. In each of four children with atypical mycobacterial cervical adenitis in this stu...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Mandell F,Wright PF

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abusive abdominal trauma (AAT) is the second leading cause of child abuse mortality. Previous outcome studies have been limited to data from trauma centers. OBJECTIVES:The goals of this study were (1) to examine mortality, length of hospitalization, and hospital charges among a national sample of children h...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lane WG,Lotwin I,Dubowitz H,Langenberg P,Dischinger P

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an adolescent boy who has Tourette's syndrome and developed a subtle but significant increase in vocal tics after an 8-month respite. The increase in vocal tics was associated with an acute increase in psychological stressors and resulted in recurrent air swallowing, which, in turn, caused abdomi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Frye RE,Hait EJ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The goal was to investigate the efficacy of orally administered probiotics in preventing necrotizing enterocolitis for very low birth weight preterm infants. METHODS:A prospective, blinded, randomized, multicenter controlled trial was conducted at 7 NICUs in Taiwan, to evaluate the beneficial effects of prob...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Lin HC,Hsu CH,Chen HL,Chung MY,Hsu JF,Lien RI,Tsao LY,Chen CH,Su BH

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swaddling was an almost universal child-care practice before the 18th century. It is still tradition in certain parts of the Middle East and is gaining popularity in the United Kingdom, the United States, and The Netherlands to curb excessive crying. We have systematically reviewed all articles on swaddling to evaluat...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： van Sleuwen BE,Engelberts AC,Boere-Boonekamp MM,Kuis W,Schulpen TW,L'Hoir MP

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In previous studies, the oral calcium loading and deprivation test has been used to distinguish between children with renal (fasting) hypercalciuria (RH) and absorptive hypercalciuria (AH). OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the long-term clinical course of 30 children with idiopathic hypercalciuria and investigated th...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Aladjem M,Barr J,Lahat E,Bistritzer T

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined conceptions of illness in young adolescents. A group of 77 urban junior high school students aged 11 to 15 years were asked for their definitions of illness. Themes occurring in definitions of illness were identified and coded according to a previously developed coding scheme. Evidence in support o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Millstein SG,Adler NE,Irwin CE Jr

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model of enhanced primary care would improve the attitudes, knowledge, comfort, competence, and behavior of child health care professionals (HPs) regarding addressing major risk factors for child maltreatment (CM). METHODS:In a cluster randomized c...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dubowitz H,Lane WG,Semiatin JN,Magder LS,Venepally M,Jans M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral absorption and elimination of quinidine in pediatric patients was studied. Single oral doses of quinidine sulfate were administered to 13 patients ranging in age from 4 to 22 years of age. Serum quinidine concentration reached a peak within 30 minutes to two hours after drug administration. The serum half-lif...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Szefler SJ,Pieroni DR,Gingell RL,Shen DD

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperphenylalaninemia due to a biopterin synthesis defect was detected in an infant with decreased biopterin and increased neopterin levels in plasma and urine. Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) administration normalized plasma phenylalanine levels. CSF biopterin and neurotransmitter metabolite levels were normal and with the...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hoganson G,Berlow S,Kaufman S,Milstien S,Schuett V,Matalon R,Naylor E,Seifert W

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00