BACKGROUND: Host biomarkers predict disease severity in adults with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP). We evaluated the association of the white blood cell (WBC) …

BACKGROUND Children may be hospitalized at general hospitals or freestanding children's
hospitals. Knowledge about how inpatient care differs at these hospitals is important to …

Although recent guidelines recommend a minimalist approach to bronchiolitis, there are
several issues with this posture. First, there are concerns about the definition of the disease …

OBJECTIVES: Cardiorespiratory and pulse oximetry monitoring in children who are
hospitalized should balance benefits of detecting deterioration with potential harms of alarm …

Importance Postdischarge treatment of acute osteomyelitis in children requires weeks of
antibiotic therapy, which can be administered orally or intravenously via a peripherally …

Care and outcomes for the more than 40,000 patients undergoing pediatric and congenital
heart surgery in the United States annually are known to vary widely. While consensus …

BACKGROUND: Substantial morbidity and excessive care variation are seen with pediatric
pneumonia. Accurate risk-stratification tools to guide clinical decision-making are needed …

Methods| We performed a cross-sectional analysis of data from the 2016 (most recent
available) Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), the only all-payer, administrative data set …

BACKGROUND: Significant disparities exist between patients of different races and with
different family incomes; less is understood regarding community-level factors on outcomes …

Importance Identifying high priority pediatric conditions is important for setting a research
agenda in hospital pediatrics that will benefit families, clinicians, and the health care system …