Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Jul 2004
Admission predictor modeling in pediatric interhospital transport.
The objective of this investigation was to determine if an existing general severity of illness measure describing pediatric emergency patients, calculated at referring hospitals, predicts the need for hospital admission and intensive care unit (ICU) admission at receiving hospitals. ⋯ This form of the pediatric risk of admission score is not practical as a predictor of hospital and ICU admission among pediatric interhospital transport. Specific calibration could increase its utility for the transport population. This in turn may contribute to more effective interhospital transport triage and more efficient allocation of transport resources.
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Pediatric emergency care · Jul 2004
Risk factors for nonfatal suicide behaviors among inner-city adolescents.
To determine whether a delineation of suicide attempt severity via toxic ingestion distinguishes adolescents in terms of needs for medical and psychosocial support. ⋯ The higher risk or more severe suicide attempt group of these urban adolescents were associated with psychologic adjustment disorder, but was not associated with other known risk factors for suicidal behaviors.