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Feasibility and importance of universal suicide screening in a pediatric emergency department. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States. In 2018, the Joint Commission recommended screening patients for suicide risk in healthcare settings.
Steven C Rogers, Shane J Sacco, Kristen Volz, Danielle Chenard, Kevin Borrup, Kun Chen, Robert H Aseltine   +6 more
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Clinical validity of the Pediatric Assessment Triangle in a pediatric emergency department [PDF]

Frontiers in Pediatrics
ObjectivesThis study aimed to evaluate the clinical validity of the Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) in a pediatric emergency department (PED).MethodsWe conducted a retrospective analysis of 799 children who visited our PED and collected data on age ...
Siqi Zhu, Yufen Wu, Biyan Yu, Biyu Shen, Linjie Fang, Biru Li, Biru Li, Long Xiang, Long Xiang   +8 more
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Comparing Pediatric 72-Hour Emergency Department Returns: General vs Pediatric Emergency Departments [PDF]

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Introduction: There is limited data comparing pediatric return visits between pediatric emergency departments (PED) and general EDs. We hypothesized that the 72-hour return rate is higher for patients discharged from general EDs than from PEDs.
Dana Libov, Mark Zocchi, Arvind Venkat, Timothy Ruttan, Coburn Allen, Matthew Wilkinson, US Acute Care Solutions Research Group   +6 more
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334 Syncope in pediatric emergency department [PDF]

Abstracts, 2021
The objective of this study was to evaluate the various factors related to the children who presented to the emergency department of Children ´s Hospital Zagreb after experiencing syncope. Information about all visits in ER during 2018 was analyzed from a database. Out of all 14115 visits, the syncope was present in 96 patients (0.6%).
Nikolina Benco, Alen Švigir, Iva Topalušić, Katarina Vulin, Zdenka Pleša Premilovac   +4 more
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Nonurgent Visits to the Pediatric Emergency Department before and during the First Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic

International Journal of Pediatrics, 2022
Background. Nonurgent visits in pediatric Emergency Departments are a growing burden. In order to find predictors for those nonurgent visits, we performed a retrospective analysis of unscheduled visits at the Pediatric Emergency Department of the ...
Laura Guckert, Heiko Reutter, Nadia Saleh, Rainer Ganschow, Andreas Müller, Fabian Ebach   +5 more
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Impact of Covid-19 on the Visit of Pediatric Patients with Injuries to the Emergency Department in Korea

Children, 2021
The total number of pediatric emergency department (PED) visitors has decreased worldwide since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. We hypothesized that this might also affect the number of PED visits due to injuries.
Arum Choi, Woori Bae, Kyunghoon Kim, Sukil Kim   +3 more
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Assessing proximity effect of high‐acuity pediatric emergency departments on the pediatric readiness scores in neighboring general emergency departments

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2022
Study Objectives The objective of this study was to determine if there is a proximity effect of high‐acuity, pediatric‐capable emergency departments (EDs) on the weighted pediatric readiness score of neighboring general EDs and whether this effect is ...
Kristina Brumme, Hilary A. Hewes, Rachel Richards, Marianne Gausche‐Hill, Katherine Remick, Joelle Donofrio‐Odmann   +5 more
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Fast, cheap and feasible: Implementation of pediatric telemedicine in a public hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic

Jornal de Pediatria, 2022
Objective: In Brazil, telemedicine was allowed as an exception during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite its recognized value and availability, telemedicine is not universally used, suggesting that some barriers prevent its adoption and
Rafael da Silva Giannasi Severini, Pedro Carpini de Oliveira, Thomaz Bittencourt Couto, Hany Simon Junior, Anarella Penha Meirelles de Andrade, Danilo Yamamoto Nanbu, Sylvia C.L. Farhat, Cláudio Schvartsman   +7 more
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Comparisons of Pediatric Patients who Visited to the Pediatric Emergency Department and the General Emergency Department [PDF]

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2015
Purpose In 2010 and 2011, the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare designated 2 and 4 Pediatric Emergency Centers, respectively. This study was conducted to examine the characteristics of pediatric patients who visited the pediatric emergency department
Hyun Noh, Do Kyun Kim, Jin Hee Lee, Young Ho Kwak, Jin Hee Jung, Hye Young Jang, Ji Sook Lee   +6 more
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National survey of pediatric services available in US emergency departments [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Children account for nearly 20% of all US emergency department (ED) visits, yet previous national surveys found that many EDs lack specialized pediatric care.
Amanda L Gonsalves, Anne P Steptoe, Ashley F Sullivan, Carlos A Camargo, Janice A Espinola, Susan A Rudders   +5 more
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