Ways to identify children with medical complexity and the importance of why

JG Berry, M Hall, E Cohen, M O'Neill… - The Journal of …, 2015 - jpeds.com
Jay G. Berry, MD, MPH1, Matt Hall, PhD2, Eyal Cohen, MD, MSc3, Margaret O'Neill, BS1,
and Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH4 Children with medical complexity, although a small …

A framework of pediatric hospital discharge care informed by legislation, research, and practice

JG Berry, K Blaine, J Rogers, S McBride… - JAMA …, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
To our knowledge, no widely used pediatric standards for hospital discharge care exist,
despite nearly 10 000 pediatric discharges per day in the United States. This lack of …

Diagnoses and timing of 30-day readmissions after hospitalization for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia

K Dharmarajan, AF Hsieh, Z Lin, H Bueno, JS Ross… - Jama, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance To better guide strategies intended to reduce high rates of 30-day readmission
after hospitalization for heart failure (HF), acute myocardial infarction (MI), or pneumonia …

Common and costly hospitalizations for pediatric mental health disorders

NS Bardach, TR Coker, BT Zima, JM Murphy… - …, 2014 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Inpatient pediatric mental health is a priority topic for
national quality measurement and improvement, but nationally representative data on the …

Discharge teaching, readiness for discharge, and post-discharge outcomes in parents of hospitalized children

ME Weiss, KJ Sawin, K Gralton, N Johnson… - Journal of pediatric …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose This study explored the sequential relationships of parent perceptions of the quality
of their discharge teaching and nurse and parent perceptions of discharge readiness to post …

Validity and responsiveness of the pediatric quality of life inventory (PedsQL) 4.0 generic core scales in the pediatric inpatient setting

AD Desai, C Zhou, S Stanford, W Haaland… - JAMA …, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Validated patient-reported outcomes responsive to clinical change are needed
to evaluate the effectiveness of quality improvement interventions. Objectives To evaluate …

Age trends in 30 day hospital readmissions: US national retrospective analysis

JG Berry, JC Gay, KJ Maddox, EA Coleman… - bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Objective To assess trends in and risk factors for readmission to hospital across the age
continuum. Design Retrospective analysis. Setting and participants 31 729 762 index …

Chronic conditions in children and young people: learning from administrative data

LPMM Wijlaars, R Gilbert, P Hardelid - Archives of disease in …, 2016 - adc.bmj.com
Over the last century, the primary burden of disease in children and young people has
shifted from infectious diseases towards chronic conditions. 1 Improvements in neonatal and …

[PDF][PDF] The landscape of medical care for children with medical complexity

JG Berry, RK Agrawal, E Cohen… - Overland Park, KS …, 2013 - columbia.edu
Children with medical complexity (CMC) are an important group of children who have
multifaceted clinical and functional needs that can be challenging to manage and treat in the …

A predictive analytics approach to reducing 30-day avoidable readmissions among patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, or COPD

I Shams, S Ajorlou, K Yang - Health care management science, 2015 - Springer
Hospital readmission has become a critical metric of quality and cost of healthcare.
Medicare anticipates that nearly $17 billion is paid out on the 20% of patients who are …