Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA and Primary Children's Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Center of Pain Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), Benioff Children's Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco, CA, USA.
Department of Pain Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital (L Brown, UL França, and ML McManus), Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School (L Brown, UL França, and ML McManus), Boston, Mass.
Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital (L Brown, UL França, and ML McManus), Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School (L Brown, UL França, and ML McManus), Boston, Mass.
General hospitals (GH) provide inpatient care for the majority of hospitalized children in the United States, yet the majority of hospital pediatrics research is conducted at freestanding children's h...
Updating a prior 2012 analysis, this study used 2019 data to describe characteristics of pediatric hospitalizations at general and freestanding hospitals in the United States and identify the most com...
This study examined hospitalizations in children <18 years using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's 2019 Kids' Inpatient Database, stratifying neonatal and nonneonatal hospital stays....
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Sociodemographic and clinical differences between hospitalizations at general and freestanding children's hospitals were examined, applying survey weights to generate national estimates....
There were an estimated 5,263,218 pediatric hospitalizations in 2019, including 3,757,601 neonatal and 1,505,617 nonneonatal hospital stays. Overall, 88.6% (n = 4,661,288) of hospitalizations occurred...
Classifying hospitals across a wide range of pediatric capabilities, including medical, surgical, and specialty services, would improve understanding of access and outcomes....
To develop a classification system for hospitals' pediatric capabilities....
This cross-sectional study included data from 2019 on all acute care hospitals with emergency departments in 10 US states that treated at least 1 child per day. Statistical analysis was performed from...
Pediatric hospital capability level, defined using latent class analysis. The latent class model parameters were the presence or absence of 26 functional capabilities, which ranged from performing lac...
Health care utilization and structural characteristics, including inpatient beds, pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) beds, and referral rates (proportion of patients transferred among patients unabl...
Using data from 1061 hospitals (716 metropolitan [67.5%]) with a median of 2934 pediatric ED encounters per year (IQR, 1367-5996), the latent class model revealed 4 pediatric levels, with a median con...
In this cross-sectional study of hospitals from 10 US states, a system to classify hospitals' pediatric capabilities in 4 levels was developed and was associated with structural and health care utiliz...
Children with unexplained bilateral cataracts routinely undergo testing for genetic, infectious, and metabolic etiologies. We evaluated the diagnostic yield of various tests ordered by pediatric ophth...
We retrospectively identified all children with bilateral unexplained cataracts who underwent cataract surgery by a pediatric ophthalmologist at Children's Hospital Colorado from 2006 to 2022. We revi...
A total of 43 children met inclusion criteria. Of these, 34 (79%) had genetic testing, 34 (79%) had infectious disease testing, 33 (77%) had galactosemia testing, and 17 (40%) had urine-reducing subst...
Genetic testing should be strongly considered in all cases of unexplained bilateral pediatric cataracts. Metabolic and infectious testing is best considered only after consultation with the child's pe...
Over the past decades, productivity practices at hospital resulted in staff overload and burnout. Prompted by physicians' complaints, this study assessed the level of psychosocial risk among senior pe...
Direct Admission to the Hospital for Children in the United States RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2023 PRIOR VERSION(S): n/a DEVELOPER: American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Hospital Care FUNDING SOURC...
(1) Background: Hospital-acquired malnutrition in pediatric patients leads to adverse outcomes. This study aimed to develop and validate a pediatric hospital-acquired malnutrition (PHaM) risk score to...
Reducing under-five mortality is a crucial indicator of overall development in a country. However, in Angola, understanding the factors contributing to hospital deaths in this vulnerable demographic r...
After the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a surge of pediatric respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections, but national data on hospitalization and intensive care unit use and advanced respiratory supp...
To analyze demographics, respiratory support modes, and clinical outcomes of children with RSV infections at tertiary pediatric hospitals from 2017 to 2023....
This cross-sectional study evaluated children from 48 freestanding US children's hospitals registered in the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database. Patients 5 years or younger with RSV f...
Hospital presentation with RSV infection....
Data on emergency department presentations, hospital or intensive care unit admission and length of stay, demographics, respiratory support use, mortality, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation were analy...
A total of 288 816 children aged 5 years or younger (median [IQR] age, 8.9 [3.3-21.5] months; 159 348 [55.2%] male) presented to 48 US children's hospitals with RSV from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2023...
This cross-sectional study identified a postpandemic pediatric RSV surge that resulted in markedly increased hospital volumes and advanced respiratory support needs in older children with fewer comorb...
Viral co-infections are frequently observed among children, but whether specific viral interactions enhance or diminish the severity of respiratory disease is still controversial. This study aimed to ...
Respiratory tract infections in children are an interdisciplinary problem that pediatricians, allergists, laryngologists and immunologists encounter on a daily basis. In the youngest children, these d...
The aim of the study is to discuss selected respiratory diseases in children aged 0-18 years hospitalized at the Pediatric Hospital in Bielsko-Biała....
In June 2023, statistical data from the Pediatric Hospital was received regarding the number of hospitalized children aged 0-18 in 2015-2022. This article covers the following respiratory diseases: ac...
A total of 5,573 hospitalizations were analyzed for the period from 2015-2022. The largest group of children (1,583) were hospitalized due to acute bronchitis and bronchiolitis (28.41%), due to hypert...
In the analyzed Pediatric Hospital in Bielsko-Biała, the number of hospitalized children (from 0 to 18 years of age) due to pharyngitis, laryngotracheitis and pneumonia increased during the COVID-19 p...
