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Reducing Pediatric Emergency Department Prescription Errors

Pediatrics, 2022
BACKGROUND Prescription errors are a significant cause of iatrogenic harm in the health care system. Pediatric emergency department (ED) patients are particularly vulnerable to error. We sought to decrease prescription errors in an academic pediatric ED by 20% over a 24-month period by implementing identified ...
Veena, Devarajan, Nicole L, Nadeau, Jessica K, Creedon, Timothy E, Dribin, Margaret, Lin, Alexander W, Hirsch, Jeffrey T, Neal, Amanda, Stewart, Erica, Popovsky, Danielle, Levitt, Jennifer A, Hoffmann, Michael, Lee, Catherine, Perron, Dhara, Shah, Matthew A, Eisenberg, Joel D, Hudgins   +15 more
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Racial and Language Disparities in Pediatric Emergency Department Triage

Pediatric emergency care, 2021
Supplemental digital content is available in the text. Objective The aim of this study was to assess the impact race and language have on emergency department (ED) triage scores while accounting for illness severity.
Peter Metzger, Leyla Allum, E. Sullivan, F. Onchiri, Maya Jones   +4 more
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Pediatric Emergency Department Visits at US Children’s Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pediatrics, 2020
Using administrative data, we describe the epidemiology of pediatric ED visits and resource use at 27 US children’s hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amy M DeLaroche, Jonathan Rodean, P. Aronson, E. Fleegler, T. Florin, M. Goyal, Alexander W. Hirsch, Shobhit Jain, Aaron E. Kornblith, M. Sills, Jordee M. Wells, M. Neuman   +11 more
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Pediatric emergency departments

Pediatric Emergency Care, 1986
Pediatric emergency departments were surveyed by mail to determine the following patient and physician characteristics: census, triage classification, and staffing characteristics. The average number of patient visits per department per year was 44,615 (SD +/- 15,650).
J D, Losek, C, Walsh-Kelly, P W, Glaeser
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Pediatric emergency department walk-outs

Pediatric Emergency Care, 1993
The objectives of this study were to determine reasons for leaving a pediatric emergency department before physician evaluation, any adverse outcomes of those leaving, and to assess whether the presence of an ombudsman altered the pattern. This was a prospective follow-up study of all patients who left the pediatric emergency department of the Children'
L M, dos Santos, G, Stewart, N M, Rosenberg   +2 more
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Pediatric use of emergency departments

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 1989
This cross-sectional survey examined the use of emergency services by children, from birth to 16 years of age, in two urban teaching hospitals. A retrospective chart survey design was used to obtain data on the prevalence of types of patient problems; the pattern of use, including time of day and day of week; and decisions regarding patient disposition.
R, Weir, E, Rideout, J, Crook
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Pediatric emergency department analgesic practice

Pediatric Emergency Care, 1997
To review recent acute pain management care issues in a pediatric emergency department (ED) in order to identify opportunities for a performance improvement program.Descriptive, retrospective chart review.Urban pediatric hospital ED.Between January 1 and December 31, 1994 consecutive patients identified by ED chart review with the following three acute
L R, Friedland, A M, Pancioli, K M, Duncan   +2 more
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Security in pediatric emergency departments

Pediatric Emergency Care, 1995
With increasing emergency department (ED) violence, security in pediatric EDs is an important concern. The objective of this study was to document current security measures taken in pediatric EDs in the United States. A telephone survey of the security director or designee in the 42 children's hospitals in the United States with over 150 beds was ...
C J, Graham, S, Shirm
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Do Unmet Health Needs Drive Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization?

Pediatric emergency care, 2020
Objective Lack of access to basic health services is thought to increase emergency department (ED) utilization. This study assessed the relationship between unmet health care needs and pediatric ED utilization in the United States.
Sakina H Sojar, A. Gjelsvik, Hoi See Tsao, S. Amanullah   +3 more
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Use of Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Pediatric emergency care, 2020
Supplemental digital content is available in the text. Objectives We sought to describe the test characteristics of cardiac point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) performed by pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physicians after structured cardiac POCUS ...
A. F. Miller, Piyawat Arichai, Cynthia A. Gravel, Rebecca L. Vieira, Jeffrey T. Neal, M. Neuman, M. Monuteaux, J. Levy   +7 more
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