OBJECTIVE Despite uncertain validity as a measure of cost, Medicaid reimbursements may be used to compare the costs of different pediatric interventions. We explored the credibility of Medicaid reimbursements as a measure of the costs of inpatient care associated with two different approaches to follow-up care for high-risk indigent infants. DESIGN Analysis of Medicaid reimbursements within a...

For best survival and quality of life, pediatric basic life support (BLS) should be part of a community effort that includes prevention, early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), prompt access to the emergency response system, and rapid pediatric advanced life support (PALS), followed by integrated post– cardiac arrest care. These 5 links form the American Heart Association (AHA) pediatric Cha...

Is it time for pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) to become a full-fl edged subspecialty? Yes! The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) defi nes a subspecialty as “That which provides advanced GME in a narrow fi eld of study within a medical specialty, eg, geriatric medicine within the fi eld of internal medicine.” In addition, many authorities feel that a robust research...

Amalia Biron Research Institute of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Pediatric Department, Laniado hospital, Netanya; Ruth and Bruce Rappoport Faculty of Medicine Technion, Haifa, Israel; Neonatology Unit Laniado hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Barzilai University Medical Center, Ashkel...

In order to care for an ill or injured child, it is crucial that every emergency department (ED) has a minimum set of personnel and resources because the majority of children are brought to the geographically nearest ED. In addition to adequate preparation for basic pediatric emergency care, a comprehensive, specialized healthcare system should be in place for a critically-ill or injured victim...

1Division of Pediatric Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA; 2Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; 3Children’s Oncology Group, Arcadia, CA; 4Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; 5Department of Pathology, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AZ; 6Department and Division of Pediat...

Multicenter clinical research studies are often needed to address issues of generalizability, conditions with low incidence, adequate statistical power, and potential study bias. While pediatric research networks began work in the 1950s, and Rhode Island physicians have contributed to many of these studies, pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) collaboratives are relative newcomers. Since the mid-...

2000-2010 in United States Shipra Gupta, MD; Ankit Sakhuja, MBBS FACP FASN; Eric McGrath, MD; Basim Asmar, MD; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI; Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI; Pedi...

Purpose There is limited information available about factors that influence interest, beliefs and utilization of CAIM (Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine) in a pediatric population. Thus, the current study examined these factors through questionnaires to both (1) caregivers of pediatric patients and (2) pediatric healthcare providers. This two-part study was conducted at CHOC ...

Division of Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and Department of Surgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois Address correspondence to David H. Rothstein, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, 225 E Chicago Ave, Box 63, Chicago, IL 60611. E-mail: drothstein@luriechildr...