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Resident Efficiency In A Pediatric Emergency Department., M Denise Dowd, Celeste Tarantino, Theodore M. Barnett, Laura Fitzmaurice, Jane F. Knapp
Resident Efficiency In A Pediatric Emergency Department., M Denise Dowd, Celeste Tarantino, Theodore M. Barnett, Laura Fitzmaurice, Jane F. Knapp
Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers
OBJECTIVES: To measure the hourly rate of patients evaluated and treated by resident physicians in an academic pediatric emergency department (PED) and examine differences in the rate by subspecialty and year of training.
METHODS: For all residents rotating in an academic, urban children's hospital PED, the rate of patients seen per hour over the course of their rotation was calculated using an electronic tracking system, EmSTAT, for calendar year 2000. Rates are reported as the mean number of patients seen per resident hour worked. Mean differences are reported for resident subspecialties (emergency medicine, pediatrics, and family practice) and postgraduate year …
Implementing Infant Hearing Screening At Maternal And Child Health Clinics: Context And Interactional Processes, De Wet Swanepoel, René Hugo, Brenda Louw
Implementing Infant Hearing Screening At Maternal And Child Health Clinics: Context And Interactional Processes, De Wet Swanepoel, René Hugo, Brenda Louw
Brenda Louw
Chronic Outpatient Sildenafil Therapy For Pulmonary Hypertension In A Child After Cardiac Surgery, Chad A. Knoderer, E. S. Ebenroth, J. W. Brown
Chronic Outpatient Sildenafil Therapy For Pulmonary Hypertension In A Child After Cardiac Surgery, Chad A. Knoderer, E. S. Ebenroth, J. W. Brown
Scholarship and Professional Work – COPHS
We report the case of a 14-month-old male with d-transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary hypertension successfully treated with long-term sildenafil following cardiac surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of long-term sildenafil treatment in a child after corrective cardiac surgery.
Childhood And Adolescent Obesity: Nationwide Pediatric Healthcare Provider Practices And Their Role In Treatment And Prevention Of The Obesity Epidemic, Alison Farley
MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects
The purpose of this research is to explore screening and treatment patterns as well as the underlying provider confidence in their decision-making related to the overweight and obese child and adolescent patient. The screening and treatment of obesity in the child and adolescent population are affected by complex social implications and physical side effects. Without a clear consensus on screening, diagnosis and alternative treatment plans, healthcare providers will not maximize the opportunity to provide primary and secondary prevention to the growing epidemic.
Statistical analysis of secondary survey data was conducted to explore screening and treatment patterns as well as the …