2021
Improving the Quality of Clinical Care of Children with Diabetic Ketoacidosis in General Emergency Departments Following a Collaborative Improvement Program with an Academic Medical Center
Alsaedi H, Lutfi R, Abu-Sultaneh S, Montgomery EE, Pearson KJ, Weinstein E, Whitfill T, Auerbach MA, Abulebda K. Improving the Quality of Clinical Care of Children with Diabetic Ketoacidosis in General Emergency Departments Following a Collaborative Improvement Program with an Academic Medical Center. The Journal Of Pediatrics 2021, 240: 235-240.e1. PMID: 34481806, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.08.081.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGeneral emergency departmentsAcademic medical centerDiabetic ketoacidosisPatients' clinical outcomesEmergency departmentClinical outcomesMedical CenterClinical carePediatric intensive care unitPediatric diabetic ketoacidosisRetrospective cohort studyIntensive care unitProcess of carePediatric emergency careCollaborative improvement programSignificant improvementCohort studyPediatric patientsCare unitMultifaceted interventionsEmergency carePatientsCareAdherenceKetoacidosis
2019
Improving Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis Management in Community Emergency Departments Using a Simulation-Based Collaborative Improvement Program
Abulebda K, Whitfill T, Montgomery EE, Kirby ML, Ahmed RA, Cooper DD, Nitu ME, Auerbach MA, Lutfi R, Abu-Sultaneh S. Improving Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis Management in Community Emergency Departments Using a Simulation-Based Collaborative Improvement Program. Pediatric Emergency Care 2019, 37: 543-549. PMID: 30870337, DOI: 10.1097/pec.0000000000001751.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCommunity emergency departmentsAcademic medical centerEmergency departmentCollaborative improvement programDiabetic ketoacidosisPediatric patientsPediatric volumePediatric resourcesComposite adherence scoreDiabetic ketoacidosis managementLow pediatric volumePediatric DKA patientsProspective interventional studyMixed linear regression modelsQuality of careDKA guidelinesPatients preimplementationDKA patientsInterventional studyOverall adherenceAdherence scoreIll childrenMedical CenterCritical action checklistMultiprofessional team
2017
Comparing Practice Patterns Between Pediatric and General Emergency Medicine Physicians
Chime NO, Katznelson J, Gangadharan S, Walsh B, Lobner K, Brown L, Gawel M, Auerbach M. Comparing Practice Patterns Between Pediatric and General Emergency Medicine Physicians. Pediatric Emergency Care 2017, 33: 278-286. PMID: 28355170, DOI: 10.1097/pec.0000000000000557.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPractice patternsGeneral emergency medicine physiciansEmergency medicine-trained physiciansFinal analysisManagement of feverProcess of careEmergency medicine physiciansType of carePediatric emergency medicine trainingInitial literature searchDiabetic ketoacidosisFebrile seizuresIll infantsEmergency departmentMedication administrationInclusion criteriaExclusion criteriaMedicine physiciansLiterature searchPhysiciansDiagnostic studiesEmergency medicine trainingRobust studiesCarePEM training