Variation in Surgical Outcomes for Adolescents and Young Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Surgical complications vary by hospital setting and surgeon’s specialty.
Patient Safety and Outcomes
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Is Patient Safety Improving?
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article assesses patient safety indicators (PSIs) over the past decade to examine whether national safety and quality trends have improved. Of the 15 PSIs considered in this study, seven PSIs had increasing annual percentages changes and seven had decreasing annual percentage changes.
Systems that Track Case Outcomes May Prove a Hard Sell in Bare-Budget Times
July 1, 2001 | Program Result
Family Service America developed both a bi-weekly newsletter on child and family issues and a database to track and evaluate outcomes, allowing family service agencies to compare their performances and demonstrate their effectiveness in the field.
Improving Asthma Outcomes in Minority Children
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A parent mentoring program which matches parents of minority, asthmatic children with trained parent mentors similar to themselves seems to be an inexpensive and effective way to help families manage their kids' asthma. There can actually be a net savings associated with families that extensively participate in such a program.
Why Pediatricians Need Lawyers to Keep Children Healthy
July 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Pediatricians recognize that social and nonmedical factors influence child health and that there are many government programs and laws designed to provide for children's basic needs. However, gaps in implementation result in denials of services, lea ...
Hospitalized Children's Perspectives on the Quality and Equity of Their Nursing Care
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Approximately 3 million children in the United States are hospitalized every year. This study examines children and adolescents' views of the quality of their nursing care while hospitalized and their physical and emotional states.
Increasing Interpretation Through Policy Change
August 11, 2009 | Story
Seattle Children's Hospital incorporated language services metrics into the hospital dashboard and changed hospital policy to require interpretation two times a day for patients.
New Techniques Needed to Measure Teens' Smoking Patterns - and Attempts to Quit
February 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Middleton, Wis., integrated research issues on tobacco treatment for adolescents into a conference addressing methodological issues in tobacco treatment outcomes research.
A Special Focus on Accuracy of State Birth Data and Cost Effectiveness of Tests
July 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Center for Perinatal Health Initiatives was created to assess changes in perinatal services and outcomes in New Jersey, and is housed at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.