Academic pediatrics
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The use of simulation-based medical education (SBME) in pediatrics has grown rapidly over the past 2 decades and is expected to continue to grow. Similar to other instructional formats used in medical education, SBME is an instructional methodology that facilitates learning. Successful use of SBME in pediatrics requires attention to basic educational principles, including the incorporation of clear learning objectives. ⋯ Finally, we discuss the future of pediatric SBME. As a community, pediatric simulation educators and researchers have been a leading force in the advancement of simulation in medicine. As the use of SBME in pediatrics expands, we hope this perspective will serve as a guide for those interested in improving the state of pediatric SBME.
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To stratify children using available software, Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs), in a tertiary children's hospital, Seattle Children's Hospital (SCH), and a state's Medicaid claims data, Washington State (WSM), into 3 condition groups: complex chronic disease (C-CD); noncomplex chronic disease (NC-CD), and nonchronic disease (NC). ⋯ CRGs can be used to stratify children receiving care at a tertiary care hospital according to complexity in both hospital and Medicaid administrative data. This method will enhance reporting of health-related outcome data.
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Although the emergency department (ED) provides essential care for severely ill or injured children, past research has shown that children often visit the ED for potentially preventable illnesses, including asthma. We sought to determine how children's rate of ED visits for asthma has changed over the last decade and to analyze what factors are associated with a child's potentially preventable ED visit for asthma. ⋯ Although the overall rate of potentially preventable ED visits for asthma did not significantly change over the last decade, racial, insurance-based, and other demographic disparities in the likelihood of a preventable asthma-related ED visit persist.
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Academic pediatrics · Jan 2015
Multicenter Study Observational StudyRisk factors for requiring intensive care among children admitted to ward with bronchiolitis.
To examine risk factors for transfer of bronchiolitis patients from the ward to the intensive care unit (ICU) and/or initiation of critical care interventions. ⋯ In this multicenter study of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis, low birth weight and tachypnea were significantly associated with subsequent transfer to the ICU and/or use of mechanical ventilation.
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Academic pediatrics · Nov 2014
The greater good: how supervising physicians make entrustment decisions in the pediatric emergency department.
Graduate medical education is transitioning to the use of entrustable professional activities to contextualize educational competencies. Factors influencing entrustment decisions have been reported in adult medicine. Knowing how such decisions are made in pediatrics is critical to this transition. ⋯ In pediatrics, supervisors consider various factors when making decisions regarding resident procedural readiness, including parental preferences. An educational system using entrustable professional activities may facilitate holistic assessment and foster expertise-informed decisions about residents' progression toward entrustment; such a system may also lessen supervisors' need to omit information to parents about residents' procedural readiness.