Cost-benefit analysis of a medical emergency team in a children's hospital.

abstract：:Cranial asymmetry may be present at birth or may develop during the first few months of life. Over the past several years, pediatricians have seen an increase in the number of children with cranial asymmetry, particularly unilateral flattening of the occiput. This increase likely is attributable to parents following t...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Persing J,James H,Swanson J,Kattwinkel J,American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine, Section on Plastic Surgery and Section on Neurological Surgery.

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether corticosteroid use is associated with severe varicella. DESIGN:The odds of corticosteroid exposure were compared among 35 children with severe varicella and 10,000 control subjects. RESULTS:Five (26.3%) of 19 case patients without known immunosuppression had received steroids within 30 d...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Dowell SF,Bresee JS

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurobehavioral conditions of childhood and adolescence. Despite availability of effective treatment options, initiation of treatment is variable and persistence with therapeutic regimens is poor. OBJECTIVE:We sought to better underst...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Brinkman WB,Sherman SN,Zmitrovich AR,Visscher MO,Crosby LE,Phelan KJ,Donovan EF

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To test the hypotheses that minority children with long-bone fractures are less likely to (1) receive analgesics, (2) receive opioid analgesics, and (3) achieve pain reduction. METHODS:We performed a 3-year retrospective cross-sectional study of children <18 years old with long-bone fractures using the Pedi...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Goyal MK,Johnson TJ,Chamberlain JM,Cook L,Webb M,Drendel AL,Alessandrini E,Bajaj L,Lorch S,Grundmeier RW,Alpern ER,PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY CARE APPLIED RESEARCH NETWORK (PECARN).

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between June 1979 and June 1989, 54 children with urolithiasis were evaluated and treated at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The most common symptoms were flank or abdominal pain (58%) and gross hematuria (28%). In 46 children (86%), stones were secondary to a preexisting condition and in only 8 (14%) no apparent...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gearhart JP,Herzberg GZ,Jeffs RD

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the lowest dose of concentrated (U100) insulin that can be reproducibly delivered. METHODS:A telephone survey was used to determine current practices in major pediatric hospitals regarding the administration of low doses of concentrated insulin. A sensitive gravitometric technique was used to de...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Casella SJ,Mongilio MK,Plotnick LP,Hesterberg MP,Long CA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course, laboratory data, outcome, and autopsy findings in 61 pediatric patients with suspected brain death were reviewed. In 58% of patients, the initial EEG was isoelectric, and cerebral blood flow was absent. In six of nine children, the initial EEG, which showed activity, became isoelectric by 72 hours...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Drake B,Ashwal S,Schneider S

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether physicians can estimate accurately the age of an accidental bruise on direct physical examination. METHODS:Children who presented to the emergency department of a children's hospital with accidental bruises of known age and origin had demographic data and information about their injury r...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Bariciak ED,Plint AC,Gaboury I,Bennett S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine trends in multiple births conceived using assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the United States between 1997 and 2000 and to estimate the proportion of all US multiple births attributable to ART use. METHODS:We analyzed population-based data of 109 519 live-born infants who were conceived in...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Reynolds MA,Schieve LA,Martin JA,Jeng G,Macaluso M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the International Collaborative Study of Maternal phenylketonuria have shown that dietary phenylalanine restriction of women with hyperphenylalaninemia during pregnancy decreases the incidence of mental retardation, microcephaly, congenital heart disease, and intrauterine growth retardation in their off...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Clarke JT

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection occurred in the summer of 1978 in a boys' camp in northern Wisconsin and affected 139 of 196 persons (71%); 115 (59%) had laboratory evidence of infection. In 77% of the cases, onset of disease occurred within three weeks after arrival at camp, in contrast to the usually ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Broome CV,LaVenture M,Kaye HS,Davis AT,White H,Plikaytis BD,Fraser DW

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the independent contribution of major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to changes in body composition in older adolescents. METHODS:Medically healthy 15- to 20-year-olds who were unmedicated or within 1 month of sta...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Calarge CA,Mills JA,Janz KF,Burns TL,Coryell WH,Zemel BS

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review of North Carolina traffic crash data revealed that alcohol use, although associated with 7.9% of motor vehicle crashes involving children, accounted for 15.4% of the motor vehicle-related deaths and 10.4% of the injuries. The largest proportion of these deaths were child passengers in a vehicle in which the dri...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Margolis LH,Kotch J,Lacey JH

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lithium is a benchmark treatment for bipolar disorder in adults. Definitive studies of lithium in pediatric bipolar I disorder (BP-I) are lacking. METHODS:This multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of pediatric participants (ages 7-17 years) with BP-I/manic or mixed episodes compar...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Findling RL,Robb A,McNamara NK,Pavuluri MN,Kafantaris V,Scheffer R,Frazier JA,Rynn M,DelBello M,Kowatch RA,Rowles BM,Lingler J,Martz K,Anand R,Clemons TE,Taylor-Zapata P

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the correlates of intent to breastfeed and of successful lactation and nursing at the breast in mothers of very low birth weight (VLBW; <1.5 kg) infants. METHODS:We conducted a prospective observational study of 119 mothers of singleton VLBW infants (mean birth weight: 1056 g; mean ges...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Furman L,Minich N,Hack M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron deficiency affects 2.4 million US children, and childhood iron-deficiency anemia is associated with behavioral and cognitive delays. Given the detrimental long-term effects and high prevalence of iron deficiency, its prevention in early childhood is an important public health issue. OBJECTIVES:The stud...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Brotanek JM,Gosz J,Weitzman M,Flores G

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides background information on acoustic impedance testing and illustrates utilization of test results in pediatric clinical practice. Acoustic impedance measurement devices are presently being used successfully by hearing screening programs and by otorhinolaryngologists in clinical and hospital setti...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Ehrlich MA,Tait CA

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One thousand eight hundred eighty-seven children born to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) seropositive mothers, including 1045 infants prospectively followed up from birth, were studied. Intravenous drug use was the most frequent maternal risk factor, although the percentage of women infected by sexual cont...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gabiano C,Tovo PA,de Martino M,Galli L,Giaquinto C,Loy A,Schoeller MC,Giovannini M,Ferranti G,Rancilio L

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the timing of brain injury in infants with periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) with serial electroencephalography (EEG) recordings during the neonatal period. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We evaluated 172 preterm infants having a gestational age <33 weeks and weighing <2000 g. I...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Hayakawa F,Okumura A,Kato T,Kuno K,Watanabe K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-based data on varicella complications are presented using information both from national sample surveys of hospitalizations and physician office visits and from reviews of medical records for all cases occurring within one community (Olmsted County, Minnesota) during a specified period. Acute cerebellar ata...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Guess HA,Broughton DD,Melton LJ 3rd,Kurland LT

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most difficult ethical dilemmas in pediatrics today arises when a child has complex chronic conditions that are not curable and cause discomfort with no prospect of any improvement on quality of life. In the context of medical futility, it is harmful to prolong medical treatment. The question is: How can me...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Leeuwenburgh-Pronk WG,Miller-Smith L,Forman V,Lantos JD,Tibboel D,Buysse C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenovirus is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the immunocompromised host. The incidence of severe adenovirus disease in pediatrics is increasing in association with growing numbers of immunocompromised children, where case fatality rates as high as 50% to 80% have been reported. There are no...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Gavin PJ,Katz BZ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi, the causing agent of Chagas disease, can be transmitted to the offspring of infected pregnant women, thus being an epidemiologically important way of parasite transmission in humans. In addition, the migration of infected women from endemic areas to nonendemic countries may export this parasite infe...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Volta BJ,Perrone AE,Rivero R,Scollo K,Bustos PL,Bua J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether adjunctive therapy with recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) could reverse sepsis-associated neonatal neutropenia and improve neonatal survival compared with conventional therapy in a phase I/II-type trial. STUDY DESIGN:An intravenous infusion of rhG-CSF (10...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Kocherlakota P,La Gamma EF

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The effectiveness of many interventions aimed at reducing the risk of retinopathy has not been well established. OBJECTIVE:To estimate the effectiveness of nutritional interventions, oxygen saturation targeting, blood transfusion management, and infection prevention on the incidence of retinopathy of prematuri...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Fang JL,Sorita A,Carey WA,Colby CE,Murad MH,Alahdab F

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether embedding pediatric anticipatory guidance into books read to infants is an effective way to educate low-income, first-time mothers about injury-prevention and health-promotion practices. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Primiparous women (N = 168) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: an educational...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Reich SM,Bickman L,Saville BR,Alvarez J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are reporting a previously well 5-year-old child with varicella-zoster meningitis who had a history of a previous immunization against varicella. This child also developed a transient sensorineural hearing loss. The child was treated with acyclovir and made a full recovery. ...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Schwab J,Ryan M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disparities in health service use have been described across a range of sociodemographic factors. Patterns of PICU use have not been thoroughly assessed. METHODS:This was a population-level, retrospective analysis of admissions to the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center PICU between 2011 and 2016....

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Andrist E,Riley CL,Brokamp C,Taylor S,Beck AF

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Vaccination does not cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). However, SIDS peaks at 2 months of age, when vaccination encounters are frequent. There are no published estimates using population data on age of death and immunization coverage to indicate to practitioners how often coincident vaccination may o...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Brotherton JM,Hull BP,Hayen A,Gidding HF,Burgess MA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:media-1vid110.1542/5787668327001PEDS-VA_2017-2837Video AbstractGift giving is psychologically and culturally complex. In any context, a gift can have multiple meanings. In the context of the doctor-patient relationship, the giving of gifts and decisions about whether to accept gifts raise complex ethical issues. In th...

journal_title：Pediatrics

authors： Sharma A,Johnson LM,Caruso Brown A,Unguru Y,Lantos JD

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00