Improving guideline-concordant care for febrile infants through a quality improvement initiative

CE McDaniel, E Kerns, B Jennings, S Magee… - …, 2024 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES We aimed to examine the impact of a quality improvement (QI) collaborative
on adherence to specific recommendations within the American Academy of Pediatrics' …

Characteristics and Utilization of Hospitalizations Among Children With Medical Complexity

NM Money, KA Michelson, S Ramgopal - Hospital Pediatrics, 2024 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES Hospitalizations for children with medical complexity (CMC) have increased
substantially over the past 2 decades and constitute a disproportionate percentage of …

Identifying potentially unnecessary hospitalizations in children with pneumonia

S Ramgopal, D Lorenz, L Ambroggio… - Hospital …, 2022 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE To characterize the outcomes of children with community acquired pneumonia
(CAP) across 41 United States hospitals and evaluate factors associated with potentially …

Changing patterns of routine laboratory testing over time at children's hospitals

MJ Tchou, M Hall, JL Markham… - Journal of Hospital …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Research into low‐value routine testing at children's hospitals has not
consistently evaluated changing patterns of testing over time. Objectives To identify changes …

Association of tolerance of uncertainty with outcomes in a quality improvement collaborative

BA Foster, C Zhou, E Canty, S Ralston… - Hospital …, 2023 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND: Tolerance of uncertainty may influence how physicians and other providers
practice and make clinical decisions. We hypothesized that increased tolerance of …

Fluid management of the critically Ill child

NS Arrese, ML Green - Current opinion in pediatrics, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Fluid management of the critically Ill child : Current Opinion in Pediatrics Fluid management of
the critically Ill child : Current Opinion in Pediatrics Log in or Register Subscribe to journalSubscribe …

Closing the Fluid Gap: Improving Isotonic Maintenance Intravenous Fluid Use in a Community Hospital Network

S Mittal, S Knerr, J Prasto, J Hunt, C Mattern… - Pediatric Quality & …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Methods: We used improvement methodology to identify causes of continued hypotonic fluid
use, which involved provider behavior and systems factors. We implemented interventions to …

Quality and safety in the literature: October 2022

S Childers, N Houchens, A Gupta - BMJ Quality & Safety, 2022 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Healthcare quality and safety span multiple topics across the spectrum of academic and
clinical disciplines. Keeping abreast of the rapidly growing body of work can be challenging …

A Case Report and Literature Review on Complications of Pediatric Maintenance Intravenous Fluids

J Pottokaran, LT Patterson… - Archives of Nephrology …, 2024 - scientificarchives.com
After establishing the new standard of care of isotonic fluids for maintenance therapy, there
has not been a systematic follow-up to determine whether the goal of the switch has been …