Pediatrics
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A consortium of the 19 community hospitals and 1 tertiary care children's hospital that provide maternity care in the New York State Hudson Valley region implemented a program to teach parents about the dangers of shaking infants and how to cope safely with an infant's crying. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the program in reducing the frequency of shaking injuries. ⋯ Parent education delivered in the hospital by maternity nurses reduces newborns' risks of sustaining an abusive head injury resulting from shaking during the first year of life.
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As a component of comprehensive pediatric care, adolescents should receive appropriate guidance regarding substance use during routine clinical care. This statement addresses practitioner challenges posed by the spectrum of pediatric substance use and presents an algorithm-based approach to augment the pediatrician's confidence and abilities related to substance use screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment in the primary care setting. Adolescents with addictions should be managed collaboratively (or comanaged) with child and adolescent mental health or addiction specialists. This statement reviews recommended referral guidelines that are based on established patient-treatment-matching criteria and the risk level for substance abuse.
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Multicenter Study
Inpatient costs and charges for surgical treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is one of the most serious congenital cardiac anomalies. Typically, it is managed with a series of 3 palliative operations or cardiac transplantation. Our goal was to quantify the inpatient resource burden of HLHS across multiple academic medical centers. ⋯ Patients with HLHS demand considerable inpatient resources, whether treated with the Norwood-Glenn-Fontan procedure pathway or cardiac transplantation. Improved survival rates have led to increased hospital stays and costs.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Disability 3, 12, and 24 months after traumatic brain injury among children and adolescents.
To examine disability in children and adolescents after traumatic brain injury (TBI) across the spectrum of injury severity. ⋯ Children with moderate or severe TBI and children with mild TBI who had intracranial hemorrhage had substantial long-term reduction in their quality of life, participation in activities with others, and ability to communicate and care for themselves.
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Extremely low birth weight infants often require rehospitalization during infancy. Our objective was to identify at the time of discharge which extremely low birth weight infants are at higher risk for rehospitalization. ⋯ The scoring systems and classification and regression-tree analysis models identified infants at higher risk of rehospitalization and might assist planning for care after discharge.