2024
The Effect of a Collaborative Pediatric Emergency Readiness Improvement Intervention on Patients’ Hospital Outcomes
Abu-Sultanah M, Lutfi R, Abu-Sultaneh S, Pearson K, Montgomery E, Whitfill T, Auerbach M, Abulebda K. The Effect of a Collaborative Pediatric Emergency Readiness Improvement Intervention on Patients’ Hospital Outcomes. Academic Pediatrics 2024, 24: 1203-1209. PMID: 38657901, DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2024.04.006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGeneral emergency departmentsPediatric readiness scoreHospital length of stayLength of stayReadiness scoresEmergency departmentPICU length of stayPatient outcomesHospital lengthPost-intervention periodPre-intervention periodPediatric emergency departmentPediatric readinessAssociated with significant improvementsOutcomes of critically ill childrenPatients' hospital outcomesImprovement interventionsPediatric intensive careCollaborative interventionDescriptive statisticsClinical resourcesFuture initiativesHospital outcomesBivariate analysisCritically ill childrenThe Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Pediatric Emergency Care Across Nine Emergency Departments
Iqbal A, Whitfill T, Tiyyagura G, Auerbach M. The Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Pediatric Emergency Care Across Nine Emergency Departments. Pediatric Emergency Care 2024, 40: 131-136. PMID: 38286004, DOI: 10.1097/pec.0000000000003120.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdvanced practice providersPediatric emergency medicineLow acuity patientsPediatric emergency carePractice providersEmergency departmentAcuity patientsEmergency careImprove pediatric emergency careElectronic health recordsInternational Classification of DiseasesHigh-acuity patientsPediatric patient careClassification of DiseasesProvider typeHealth recordsEmergency medicinePatient encountersLength of stayPatient careInternational ClassificationProportion of pediatric patientsAcuity levelsPediatric patientsPatient factors
2022
Pediatric mental health visits with prolonged length of stay in community emergency departments during COVID‐19
Janke A, Nash K, Goyal P, Auerbach M, Venkatesh A. Pediatric mental health visits with prolonged length of stay in community emergency departments during COVID‐19. Journal Of The American College Of Emergency Physicians Open 2022, 3: e12869. PMID: 36570374, PMCID: PMC9767857, DOI: 10.1002/emp2.12869.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPediatric mental health visitsLength of stayMental health visitsED LOSCommon diagnostic categoriesEmergency departmentHealth visitsIncident rate ratiosCOVID-19Diagnostic categoriesCommunity emergency departmentsVisit countsMental health syndromesMental health systemAvailable complete dataDepressive disorderData registrySecondary analysisHealth systemVisitsRate ratioComplete dataStayCountHours