Pediatrics
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Study points to 24-hour window to rule out bacteremia
Major finding: The number needed to treat for one blood culture to turn positive after 24 hours was 515 infants admitted for fever.Data source:...
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Four different PCV13 schedules yield similar antibody levels
Major finding: All four vaccine schedules induced comparable IgG antibody responses, so no schedule could be deemed superior to the others.Data...
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Pearls in clinical diagnosis of pertussis
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Novel risk factors for serious RSV identified
Major finding: Children with congenital malformations, neuromuscular disease, interstitial lung disease, a variety of chromosomal abnormalities,...
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Intermittent positive-pressure ventilation similar to continuous positive airway pressure in preventing lung injury in preemies
Major finding: Of the 497 infants assigned to nasal IPPV, 38.4% reached the primary outcome of death before 36 weeks of postmenstrual age or...
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Spot checks suffice for monitoring pediatric bronchiolitis
Major finding: The average length of stay was 1.9 days with intermittent monitoring and 2.0 days with continuous monitoring (P = .98).Data source...
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‘Weekend effect’ extends to pediatric readmissions
Major finding: The 30-day all-cause readmission rate was 14.7% and the unplanned readmission rate 10.2%.Data source: Retrospective administrative...
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Chest x-rays for asthma doubled in 15 years
Major finding: The use of x-rays for children evaluated for asthma in the ED increased by 2.4 fold between 1995 and 2009, a trend that could not...
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Tracking quality measures improved perinatal care
Major finding: Tracking quality measures decreased the rate of elective deliveries before 39 weeks’ gestation from 25% to 2% and the cesarean...
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A mitral valve replacement that may grow with the child
Major finding: Eight infants with irreparable mitral valve disease underwent mitral valve replacement with the Melody valve, which offers the...