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Jul 15, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Karen Puopolo |Clinical Futures
Hospital-Onset Bacteremia—Counting Them All Hospital-Onset Bacteremia Among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients Erica C. Prochaska, MD; Shaoming Xiao, MSPH; Elizabeth Colantuoni, PhD; Reese H. Clark, MD; Julia Johnson, MD, PhD; Sagori Mukhopadhyay, MD, MMSc; Ibukunoluwa C. Kalu, MD; Danielle M. Zerr, MD, MPH; Patrick J. Reich, MD, MSCI; Jessica Roberts, MD; Dustin D. Flannery, DO, MSCE; Aaron M.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Clinical Futures
Epidemiologic studies frequently use risk ratios to quantify associations between exposures and binary outcomes. When the data are physically stored at the sites of multiple data partners, it can be challenging to perform individual-level analysis if data cannot be pooled centrally due to privacy constraints.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Clinical Futures
Clinicians variably obtain anaerobic blood cultures as part of sepsis evaluations in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Our objective was to determine if anaerobic blood culture bottles yielded clinically relevant information by either recovering pathogens exclusively or more rapidly than the concurrently obtained aerobic culture bottle in the NICU. A retrospective cohort study of blood cultures obtained from infants admitted to the NICU from 08/01/2015-08/31/2023.
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May 2, 2024 | 
publications.aap.org | Clinical Futures
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVESRespiratory viral infections increase risk of asthma in infants and children. Infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus can cause severe lung inflammation and prolonged respiratory symptoms. We sought to determine whether SARS-CoV-2 infection modified pediatric incident asthma risk.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
publications.aap.org | Clinical Futures
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Respiratory viral infections increase risk of asthma in infants and children. Infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus can cause severe lung inflammation and prolonged respiratory symptoms. We sought to determine whether SARS-CoV-2 infection modified pediatric incident asthma risk.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
publications.aap.org | Clinical Futures
Subjects: Autism/ASD, Developmental/Behavioral Health, Safety Topics: hospitals, pediatric, pharmacology, inpatients, agitation US children’s hospitals care for many youth with mental health conditions who may exhibit agitated or aggressive behaviors during their hospitalization.1–3 Despite their dehumanizing and traumatic effects, physical and pharmacologic restraints are used to manage these behaviors when less-restrictive deescalation measures fail.4–6 Emerging research has unveiled...
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
publications.aap.org | Clinical Futures
Subjects: Advocacy, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice, System-Based Practice Topics: racism, systemic racism, child health, health care systems Health inequities are often driven by population-level social determinants of health, including public policies related to education, housing, and economic security, and by household-level social risks, such as food insecurity and housing instability.1 Many pediatric health systems are therefore implementing interventions aimed at assessing...
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
link.springer.com | Clinical Futures
AbstractPublic health interventions that intervene on macrolevel systems hold the promise of reducing childhood obesity at the population level through prevention. The purpose of this review is to highlight some of the recent and best scientific evidence related to public health interventions for the prevention of childhood obesity.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
publications.aap.org | Clinical Futures
Early detection of health vulnerabilities in adolescents is integral to promoting healthy behaviors into adulthood. Our objective was to quantify the prevalence of health vulnerabilities among adolescents and examine differences by age and neighborhood opportunity.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
jamanetwork.com | Kristine A. Campbell |Healthy Families |Joanne Wood |Clinical Futures
Maassel and colleagues1 examine trends in abusive head trauma in the 2 years following the first COVID-19–related shutdowns. Relying on a database of admissions for AHT at 49 children’s hospitals across the US from January 2016 through April 2022, the authors report that COVID-19–related shutdowns in the spring of 2020 were associated with a 25% reduction in the incidence of hospitalizations for AHT among children younger than 5 years.
