Journal ArticleClin Infect Dis · August 16, 2024
Implementation of dedicated pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) at 2 combined adult-pediatric hospitals with existing ASPs was associated with sustained decreases in pediatric antibiotic use out of proportion to declines seen in adult inpat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Rural Health · June 2024
PURPOSE: The majority of pediatric antibiotic prescribing occurs in the outpatient setting and inappropriate use contributes to antimicrobial resistance. There are regional variations in outpatient antibiotic use with the highest rates occurring in the Sou ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · June 2024
Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at risk of complications from viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2. We present the clinical characteristics and outcomes of pediatric patients with SCD from the Pediatric COVID-19 United States Registry who dev ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Infect Control · May 2024
We quantified antibiotic prescribing for ambulatory pediatric acute respiratory illness at 22 institutions in "pre-shortage" (Jan 2019-Sep 2022) and "shortage" (Oct 2022-Mar 2023) periods for amoxicillin. While acute respiratory illness prescribing increas ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · April 24, 2024
Observational studies in adults suggest nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) swabs have a high negative predictive value (NPV) for ruling out MRSA pneumonia, however, pediatric data are limited. This retrospective study of 505 pediatric ...
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Journal ArticleAntimicrob Agents Chemother · April 3, 2024
Pharmacokinetic models rarely undergo external validation in vulnerable populations such as critically ill infants, thereby limiting the accuracy, efficacy, and safety of model-informed dosing in real-world settings. Here, we describe an opportunistic appr ...
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Journal ArticleOpen Forum Infect Dis · April 2024
BACKGROUND: Advanced practice providers (APPs) have taken on increasing responsibilities as primary team members in acute care hospitals, but the impact of this practice shift on antimicrobial prescribing and infectious diseases (ID) consultation requests ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · January 12, 2024
BACKGROUND: Human infections with the avian influenza A(H7N9) virus were first reported in China in 2013 and continued to occur in annual waves. In the 2016/2017 fifth wave, Yangtze River Delta (YRD) lineage viruses, which differed antigenically from those ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol · November 2023
OBJECTIVE: To describe patterns of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing at US children's hospitals and how these patterns vary by clinical service. DESIGN: Serial, cross-sectional study using quarterly surveys. SETTING: Surveys were completed in quarter 1 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr · October 2023
To examine further racial and ethnic variations in antibiotic prescribing to children, we used the Child Opportunity Index. Black children were less likely to be prescribed an antibiotic. Low- and moderate-opportunity areas were associated with greater rat ...
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Journal ArticleEBioMedicine · October 2023
BACKGROUND: While vaccines have established utility against COVID-19, phase 3 efficacy studies have generally not comprehensively evaluated protection provided by previous infection or hybrid immunity (previous infection plus vaccination). Individual patie ...
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Journal ArticleNat Med · September 2023
Vaccine protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection wanes over time, requiring updated boosters. In a phase 2, open-label, randomized clinical trial with sequentially enrolled stages at 22 US sites, we assessed ...
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Journal ArticleHealthcare (Basel) · August 16, 2023
Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing to pediatric Medicaid patients was compared among high-volume and non-high-volume prescribers. High-volume prescribers had a higher percentage of inappropriate prescriptions than non-high-volume prescribers (17.2% versu ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · June 30, 2023
BACKGROUND: Most antibiotic use occurs in ambulatory settings. No benchmarks exist for pediatric institutions to assess their outpatient antibiotic use and compare prescribing rates to peers. We aimed to share pediatric outpatient antibiotic use reports an ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Infect Dis J · May 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Racial inequities influence health outcomes in the United States, but their impact on sepsis outcomes among children is understudied. We aimed to evaluate for racial inequities in sepsis mortality using a nationally representative sample of ped ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
Childhood infections are one of the most common reasons children seek medical care, and antibiotics are the most frequently prescribed medication to children (Chai et al., 2012). Pediatric and family medicine primary care providers must be familiar with an ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · December 5, 2022
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the distribution of antibiotic use in individual children over time. The amoxicillin index is a recently proposed metric to assess first-line antibiotic prescribing to children. METHODS: We constructed a cohort of continuo ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · June 1, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, masking has been a widely used mitigation practice in kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) school districts to limit within-school transmission. Prior studies attempting to quantify the impact of masking have ...
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Journal ArticleClin Infect Dis · August 16, 2024
Implementation of dedicated pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) at 2 combined adult-pediatric hospitals with existing ASPs was associated with sustained decreases in pediatric antibiotic use out of proportion to declines seen in adult inpat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Rural Health · June 2024
PURPOSE: The majority of pediatric antibiotic prescribing occurs in the outpatient setting and inappropriate use contributes to antimicrobial resistance. There are regional variations in outpatient antibiotic use with the highest rates occurring in the Sou ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Blood Cancer · June 2024
Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at risk of complications from viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2. We present the clinical characteristics and outcomes of pediatric patients with SCD from the Pediatric COVID-19 United States Registry who dev ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Infect Control · May 2024
We quantified antibiotic prescribing for ambulatory pediatric acute respiratory illness at 22 institutions in "pre-shortage" (Jan 2019-Sep 2022) and "shortage" (Oct 2022-Mar 2023) periods for amoxicillin. While acute respiratory illness prescribing increas ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · April 24, 2024
Observational studies in adults suggest nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) swabs have a high negative predictive value (NPV) for ruling out MRSA pneumonia, however, pediatric data are limited. This retrospective study of 505 pediatric ...
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Journal ArticleAntimicrob Agents Chemother · April 3, 2024
Pharmacokinetic models rarely undergo external validation in vulnerable populations such as critically ill infants, thereby limiting the accuracy, efficacy, and safety of model-informed dosing in real-world settings. Here, we describe an opportunistic appr ...
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Journal ArticleOpen Forum Infect Dis · April 2024
BACKGROUND: Advanced practice providers (APPs) have taken on increasing responsibilities as primary team members in acute care hospitals, but the impact of this practice shift on antimicrobial prescribing and infectious diseases (ID) consultation requests ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · January 12, 2024
BACKGROUND: Human infections with the avian influenza A(H7N9) virus were first reported in China in 2013 and continued to occur in annual waves. In the 2016/2017 fifth wave, Yangtze River Delta (YRD) lineage viruses, which differed antigenically from those ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol · November 2023
OBJECTIVE: To describe patterns of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing at US children's hospitals and how these patterns vary by clinical service. DESIGN: Serial, cross-sectional study using quarterly surveys. SETTING: Surveys were completed in quarter 1 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr · October 2023
To examine further racial and ethnic variations in antibiotic prescribing to children, we used the Child Opportunity Index. Black children were less likely to be prescribed an antibiotic. Low- and moderate-opportunity areas were associated with greater rat ...
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Journal ArticleEBioMedicine · October 2023
BACKGROUND: While vaccines have established utility against COVID-19, phase 3 efficacy studies have generally not comprehensively evaluated protection provided by previous infection or hybrid immunity (previous infection plus vaccination). Individual patie ...
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Journal ArticleNat Med · September 2023
Vaccine protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection wanes over time, requiring updated boosters. In a phase 2, open-label, randomized clinical trial with sequentially enrolled stages at 22 US sites, we assessed ...
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Journal ArticleHealthcare (Basel) · August 16, 2023
Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing to pediatric Medicaid patients was compared among high-volume and non-high-volume prescribers. High-volume prescribers had a higher percentage of inappropriate prescriptions than non-high-volume prescribers (17.2% versu ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · June 30, 2023
BACKGROUND: Most antibiotic use occurs in ambulatory settings. No benchmarks exist for pediatric institutions to assess their outpatient antibiotic use and compare prescribing rates to peers. We aimed to share pediatric outpatient antibiotic use reports an ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Infect Dis J · May 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Racial inequities influence health outcomes in the United States, but their impact on sepsis outcomes among children is understudied. We aimed to evaluate for racial inequities in sepsis mortality using a nationally representative sample of ped ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
Childhood infections are one of the most common reasons children seek medical care, and antibiotics are the most frequently prescribed medication to children (Chai et al., 2012). Pediatric and family medicine primary care providers must be familiar with an ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · December 5, 2022
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the distribution of antibiotic use in individual children over time. The amoxicillin index is a recently proposed metric to assess first-line antibiotic prescribing to children. METHODS: We constructed a cohort of continuo ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · June 1, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, masking has been a widely used mitigation practice in kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) school districts to limit within-school transmission. Prior studies attempting to quantify the impact of masking have ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol · May 2022
OBJECTIVE: To describe risk factors associated with inappropriate antibiotic prescribing to children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of antibiotic prescribing to children, using Kentucky Medicaid medical and pharmacy claims data, 2017. PAR ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · April 30, 2022
West Virginia consistently ranks in the top two nationally for per capita antibiotic prescription rates in both pediatric and adult outpatient populations. We present the first descriptive analysis evaluating outpatient prescription rates within the WV ped ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol · April 2022
We describe the frequency of pediatric healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) identified through prospective surveillance in community hospitals participating in an infection control network. Over a 6-year period, 84 HAIs were identified. Of these 51 (61% ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Infect Dis J · April 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: There has been a 291% relative increase in congenital syphilis (CS) cases in the United States from 2015 to 2019. Although the majority of affected fetuses/infants are stillborn or are asymptomatic, a subset is born with severe clinical illness ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Opin Pediatr · April 1, 2022
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review highlights progress in combating pediatric pneumococcal disease in the era of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs). This review is timely given the development of increased valency PCVs for potential use in children. RECENT ...
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Journal ArticleJ Rural Health · March 2022
PURPOSE: Antibiotic resistance is a major public health threat. Antibiotic use is the main driver of resistance, with children and the state of Kentucky having particularly high rates of outpatient antibiotic prescribing. The purpose of this study was to d ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · February 1, 2022
OBJECTIVES: We evaluated the impact of distancing practices on secondary transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and the degree of sports-associated secondary transmission across a large diverse cohort of schools during spring 2021. ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · February 1, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related quarantines, which are required after close contact with infected individuals, have substantially disrupted in-person education for kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) stud ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA · January 25, 2022
IMPORTANCE: Vaccination against COVID-19 provides clear public health benefits, but vaccination also carries potential risks. The risks and outcomes of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination are unclear. OBJECTIVE: To describe reports of myocarditis and th ...
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Journal ArticleAntimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol · 2022
OBJECTIVE: To describe pediatric outpatient visits and antibiotic prescribing during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. DESIGN: An observational, retrospective control study from January 2019 to October 2021. SETTING: Outpatient clinics, inc ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2022
BACKGROUND: Pediatric solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients commonly have Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNAemia and are at risk of developing post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD). EBV DNAemia has not been analyzed on a continuous scale in this ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · October 2021
OBJECTIVES: When the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic began, experts raised concerns about in-person instruction in the setting of high levels of community transmission. We describe secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 ...
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Journal ArticleClin Infect Dis · September 7, 2021
Antimicrobial use (AU) in days of therapy per 1000 patient-days (DOT/1000 pd) varies widely among children's hospitals. We evaluated indirect standardization to adjust AU for case mix, a source of variation inadequately addressed by current measurements. H ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Infect Dis J · June 1, 2021
BACKGROUND: In premature infants, complicated intraabdominal infections (cIAIs) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Although universally prescribed, the safety and effectiveness of commonly used antibiotic regimens have not been established in ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol · May 2021
OBJECTIVE: To develop a pediatric research agenda focused on pediatric healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial stewardship topics that will yield the highest impact on child health. PARTICIPANTS: The study included 26 geographically diverse adul ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · April 2021
BACKGROUND: In an effort to mitigate the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), North Carolina closed prekindergarten through grade 12 public schools to in-person instruction on March 14, 2020. On July 15, 2020, North Carol ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · March 26, 2021
Cefdinir is frequently prescribed for pediatric infections despite lack of first-line indications. We reviewed Kentucky Medicaid claims from 2012 through 2016. Cefdinir prescriptions and spending significantly increased over the study period. Upper respira ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Aff (Millwood) · October 2020
Using North Carolina Medicaid 2016-18 claims data, we found that approximately one in ten adolescents (10.8 percent) filled at least one opioid prescription per year. Dentists, advanced practice providers, and surgeons were common prescribers of opioids to ...
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ConferenceInfection Control & Hospital Epidemiology · October 2020
Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) among cardiothoracic (CT) patients are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Data are limited regarding SSI incidence among pediatric patients undergoing primary re ...
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Journal ArticleOpen Forum Infect Dis · April 2020
BACKGROUND: Children undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are at high risk for hospital-associated bloodstream infections (HA-BSIs). This study aimed to describe the incidence, microbiology, and risk factors for HA-BSI in pediatric HSC ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2020
Antimicrobial stewardship refers to the appropriate selection, dosing, route, and duration of antimicrobial therapy to optimize patient outcomes and minimize toxicity and the development of resistant pathogens. The optimal stewardship strategies in the ped ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Infect Dis Rep · March 20, 2019
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The majority of pediatric antibiotic use occurs in outpatients. However, the optimal strategies for antimicrobial stewardship in this setting are unknown. We sought to identify studies relevant to pediatric outpatient stewardship that ha ...
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Journal ArticleAppl Clin Inform · March 2019
BACKGROUND: Integration of electronic health records (EHRs) data across sites and access to that data remain limited. OBJECTIVE: We developed an EHR-based pediatric inpatient repository using nine U.S. centers from the National Institute of Child Health an ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Control Hosp Epidemiol · December 2018
We observed pediatric S. aureus hospitalizations decreased 36% from 26.3 to 16.8 infections per 1,000 admissions from 2009 to 2016, with methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) decreasing by 52% and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus decreasing by 17%, among ...
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Journal ArticlePaediatr Drugs · October 2018
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Pharmacokinetic data for proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), acid-suppression drugs commonly prescribed to children, are lacking for obese children who are at greatest risk for acid-related disease. In a recent multi-center investigation, w ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · August 17, 2018
Administrative data are often used as a proxy for medication-administration record (MAR) data. Multicenter MAR data were compared retrospectively with administrative data from January 2010 through June 2013 from the Pediatric Health Information Systems dat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Manag Care Spec Pharm · August 2018
BACKGROUND: The rates of mental health diagnoses in children have increased. Children in poverty have the highest rates. The use of psychotropic medication for children has been increasing, which is concerning because of the unknown long-term effects and t ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Crit Care Med · June 2018
OBJECTIVES: To characterize and compare antibiotic prescribing across PICUs to evaluate the degree of variability. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis from 2010 through 2014 of the Pediatric Health Information System. SETTING: Forty-one freestanding children's ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · May 15, 2018
BACKGROUND: Although many children's hospitals have established antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs), data-driven benchmarks for optimizing antimicrobial use across centers are lacking. We developed a multicenter quality improvement collaborative focu ...
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Chapter · January 17, 2018
One of the main methodological difficulties in carrying out research in the field of occupational stress is the use of pre-designed health and behavioural questionnaires. This has the serious disadvantage of either not including important stressors at work ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Pediatr · January 2, 2018
IMPORTANCE: Influenza is a significant public health burden, causing morbidity and mortality in children, yet vaccination rates remain low. Vaccination in the pediatric emergency department (PED) setting may be beneficial but, to date, has not been proven ...
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Journal ArticleCommunity Ment Health J · January 2018
Fragmentation in behavioral and mental health care to children has resulted in suboptimal care and high rates of psychotropic medication use, especially antipsychotic medications (APM). A qualitative study, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), ai ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · December 2017
OBJECTIVES: To assess trends in the duration of intravenous (IV) antibiotics for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in infants ≤60 days old between 2005 and 2015 and determine if the duration of IV antibiotic treatment is associated with readmission. METHODS: ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · November 24, 2017
BACKGROUND: This study assessed the initiation of HPV vaccination in insured adolescent females in relation to physician visits and receipt of other vaccines routinely given at the same age. METHODS: January 1, 2010, and September 31, 2015. Vaccination adm ...
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Journal ArticleAntimicrob Agents Chemother · April 2017
Although obesity is prevalent among children in the United States, pharmacokinetic (PK) data for obese children are limited. Clindamycin is a commonly used antibiotic that may require dose adjustment in obese children due to its lipophilic properties. We p ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Infect Dis J · March 2017
BACKGROUND: Immunogenicity and safety of stand-alone diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, 5-component acellular pertussis vaccine adsorbed, inactivated poliovirus (IPV) combination vaccine (DTaP5-IPV) was compared with separate DTaP5 plus IPV vaccines as fifth dose ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · September 2016
INTRODUCTION: The epidemiology and hospital course of children with retropharyngeal abscess (RPA) or parapharyngeal abscess (PPA) have not been fully described at the national level in the United States. METHODS: Pediatric discharges for PPA and RPA were e ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
Ergonomics is the science that matches the capabilities of people and the work they perform. The primary interest is an understanding of how the design of work affects people’s safety, health, performance, and productivity. The purpose is to match the capa ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatric Infect Dis Soc · December 2015
BACKGROUND: The clinical and economic outcomes associated with pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) and other supplemental antimicrobial stewardship (AS) interventions have not been well described or reviewed. METHODS: We performed a systema ...
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Journal ArticleInfect Dis Clin North Am · December 2015
Vaccine hesitancy incorporates a wide range of parental attitudes and behaviors surrounding vaccines. Ironically, the very success of the immunization program has fueled vaccine concerns; because vaccine-preventable diseases are no longer prevalent, attent ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Rev · June 2015
On the basis of first principles, anaphylaxis to a vaccine or vaccine component is a contraindication to future receipt of that vaccine. • On the basis of strong evidence, live viral vaccines should not be administered to severely immunocompromised childre ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · May 11, 2015
BACKGROUND: Children with neurologic or neurodevelopmental disorders (NNDDs) are at increased risk of complications from influenza. Although the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recognized NNDDs as high-risk conditions for influenza ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Emerg Care · May 2015
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of pediatric ambulance transport and evaluate changes in utilization over a 10-year period. METHODS: The National Health Ambulatory Medical Care Survey emergency department (ED) data for visi ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2014
In theory at least, the sine qua non of adult learning in industry is the contribution it can make towards increasing the efficiency of the workforce. In practice, the situation is not so clear. One of the complicating factors is that training is only one ...
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Chapter · November 1, 2013
Vaccines are one of the most successful public health interventions of all time. Sixteen diseases that afflicted generations of American children are now vaccine preventable. However, as the number of vaccines in the routine childhood immunization schedule ...
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Journal ArticleMMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep · September 13, 2013
Cognitive dysfunction, seizure disorders (epilepsy), and other neurologic disorders are conditions associated with a high risk for complications of influenza virus infection. This risk was observed during the 2009 influenza pandemic; among 336 pediatric de ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · July 2013
In 2001, the American Academy of Pediatrics published clinical practice guidelines for the management of acute bacterial sinusitis (ABS) in children. The technical report accompanying those guidelines included 21 studies that assessed the diagnosis and man ...
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ConferenceIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology · January 1, 2013
In the railway infrastructure, positive train control (PTC) is an automated method for controlling and monitoring train movements to ensure safe travel by enforcing safe braking distances and speed limits, even if the locomotive driver fails to act within ...
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Journal ArticleClin Pediatr (Phila) · October 2012
This study reviewed Kentucky Medicaid claims data for children with autism spectrum disorders to determine psychotropic drug (PTD) use in this population. Children with autism spectrum disorders (ICD-9 code 299.XX) in 3 different age-groups from 2005 to 20 ...
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Journal ArticleCommunications in Statistics - Theory and Methods · September 17, 2012
It is increasingly seen that educational, administrative, and policy interventions are being carried out to improve the quality of medication and health related outcomes. In this article, we extend the general logistic regression model to evaluate the prop ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · May 2012
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of guidelines and education on empirical therapy for community-acquired pneumonia. METHODS: Administrative records for children with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia from January 2007 to September 2009 were reviewed. ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Commun · 2012
Scholars have examined how news media frame events, including responsibility for causing and fixing problems, and how these frames inform public judgment. This study analyzed 281 newspaper articles about a controversial medical study linking the measles, m ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
In this chapter, the authors propose some ideas and considerations for dealing with ergonomic concerns for portable mobile technologies in addition to updating information on fixed computer workstation applications. The relative importance of the screen, i ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · February 17, 2011
AIM: Determine predictors of support of a mandatory seasonal influenza vaccine program among health care workers (HCWs). SCOPE: Cross-sectional anonymous survey of 2443 (out of 8093) randomly selected clinical and non-clinical HCWs at a large pediatric net ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2011
The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of how the physical demands of interacting with Web devices must be considered by designers and users to reduce biomechanical and physiological strain on users. Problem areas will be identi£ed using a w ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · June 2010
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether children who received recommended vaccines on time during the first year of life had different neuropsychological outcomes at 7 to 10 years of age as compared with children with delayed receipt or nonreceipt of these vaccin ...
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Journal ArticleJ Ky Med Assoc · September 2009
BACKGROUND: An increasing number of parents are questioning the safety and necessity of routine childhood immunizations. Locally produced vaccine risk communication materials may be effective in reassuring these parents. However, little is known about spec ...
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Journal ArticleExpert Opin Biol Ther · December 2008
BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of meningitis and sepsis worldwide. Since 1981, a tetravalent meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine has been available in the US but it has been limited to high-risk patients and outbreak settings. In 20 ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Infect Control · December 2008
EPIDEMIOLOGY: Patient characteristics and system-level factors place children at increased risk for catheter-related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI). National Healthcare Safety Network data from 36 pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) demonstrate a pooled ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · April 2008
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work was to assess the association between media coverage of the MMR-autism controversy and MMR immunization in the United States. METHODS: The public-use files of the National Immunization Survey were used to estimate annual ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Infect Dis J · January 2008
BACKGROUND: Rotavirus is the most common etiologic agent of healthcare-acquired diarrhea in pediatric patients. There has been little published information on healthcare-acquired rotavirus infection. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of childr ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Clin North Am · August 2005
Management of device-related infections includes device removal for some catheter-related bloodstream infections and all ventriculoperitoneal shunt-related infections. The isolation of certain organisms (eg, Staphylococcus aureus, Candida spp) in children ...
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