Hospitals, Pediatric - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

On the front lines: lessons learned in implementing multidisciplinary peripheral venous access pain-management programs in pediatric hospitals.

30 Oct 2008 Venipuncture and intravenous cannulation are among the most common and widespread medical procedures performed on children today. Therefore, effective treatment of venous access pain can benefit from an integrated systems approach that enlists ... Read more...

An intervention to decrease narcotic-related adverse drug events in children's hospitals.

29 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVES: Narcotic-related adverse drug events are the most common adverse drug events in hospitalized children. Despite multiple published studies describing interventions that decrease adverse drug events from narcotics, large-scale ... Read more...

Staff-only pediatric hospitalist care of patients with medically complex subspecialty conditions in a major teaching hospital.

29 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVE: To assess cost and length of stay for subspecialty patients on a staff-only general pediatric hospitalist service vs traditional faculty/housestaff subspecialty services in a major teaching hospital. DESIGN: Retrospective study of 2 ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Hospitals, Pediatric'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• On the front lines: lessons learned in implementing multidisciplinary peripheral venous access pain-management programs in pediatric hospitals. 30 Oct 2008
• An intervention to decrease narcotic-related adverse drug events in children's hospitals. 29 Sep 2008
• Staff-only pediatric hospitalist care of patients with medically complex subspecialty conditions in a major teaching hospital. 29 Sep 2008
• [Hospitals, a place for learning, growth and wonder] 29 Sep 2008
• Assessing magnet readiness using the nursing work index-revised survey. 29 Sep 2008
• Empyema associated with community-acquired pneumonia: a Pediatric Investigator's Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study. 23 Sep 2008
• Day hospital versus inpatient management of uncomplicated vaso-occlusive crises in children with sickle cell disease. 30 Aug 2008
• Day hospital versus inpatient management: An economic initiative of a pediatric center, examplified on uncomplicated vaso-occlusive crises of children with sickle cell disease. 30 Aug 2008
• Infliximab for ulcerative colitis in children and adolescents. 30 Aug 2008
• Epidemiology of new cases of HIV-1 infection in children referred to the metropolitan pediatric hospital in Washington, DC. 30 Aug 2008
• An outbreak of varicella with likely breakthrough disease in a population of pediatric cancer patients. 30 Aug 2008
• A dad looks up. 30 Aug 2008
• Sequencing of an electronic health record. A risk assessment approach to enterprise implementation. 30 Aug 2008
• A comparison of populations vaccinated in a public service and in a private hospital setting in the same area. 4 Aug 2008
• Clinical practice guidelines for treating restrictive eating disorder patients during medical hospitalization. 30 Jul 2008
• Helena Kagan (1889-1978): the first paediatrician in Israel. 30 Jul 2008
• Genital and anal injuries requiring surgical repair in females less than 21 years of age. 30 Jul 2008
• Reviews of infant botulism at childrens hospital los angeles. 30 Jul 2008
• Accidental and nonaccidental poisonings as a cause of apparent life-threatening events in infants. 30 Jul 2008
• Care of children isolated for infection control: a prospective observational cohort study. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Hospitals, Pediatric'

Definition: Special hospitals which provide care for ill children.

Descriptor UI: D006776

Alternative terms: Hospitals, Pediatric; Pediatric Hospitals; Hospital, Pediatric; Pediatric Hospital;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.421.556.437;

Online Note: search HOSPITALS, SPECIAL 1968-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under HOSPITALS, SPECIAL 1975-90

Technical Notes: coord IM with hosp ownership term (e.g., HOSPITALS, COUNTY; HOSPITALS, PROPRIETARY; etc.) (IM or NIM) if pertinent; check also tag CHILD or specific; specify geog