Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Aug 1992
Proposal for an administrative curriculum in pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training.
Administrative tasks make up a significant component of the practice of pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physicians. Our survey of 10 academic pediatric emergency departments revealed that PEM physicians who are primarily clinical spent an average of 15% of their time on administrative tasks, and PEM physicians whose positions are administrative as well as clinical spent 30 to 60% of their time on administrative tasks. ⋯ It is incumbent upon pediatric emergency fellowship programs to provide an inclusive and well-structured administrative curriculum for their trainees. This article suggests a framework for such a curriculum.
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Pediatric emergency care · Aug 1992
Comparative StudyRacial differences in childhood hospitalized pedestrian injuries.
This research provides an epidemiologic analysis of pedestrian-related injury discharges from The Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham, utilizing a case-control design. Evidence is provided supporting the racial disproportionality of serious, nonfatal pedestrian injuries in children. ⋯ This racial association with pedestrian injury remained significant when the data were stratified by payment class, a proposed surrogate measure of socioeconomic status (adjusted odds ratio = 2.59). A catalog of harmful environmental factors that may be pervasive in black children's lives is provided as an aid in planning intervention programs and their evaluation.