Kavita Parikh

Development of an Achievable Benchmarks of Care Report Card for Pediatric Hospital Medicine

OBJECTIVES: To develop an Achievable Benchmarks of Care (ABCs) report card for common conditions managed by pediatric hospital medicine (PHM). METHODS: We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study of encounters for 13 common pediatric conditions between January 1, 2023, and...

An Overview of Interrupted Time Series as a Research Method

Interrupted time series (ITS) study design is increasingly used to evaluate the impacts of guidelines, policy changes, and quality improvement efforts on clinical outcomes. Repeated observations of an outcome of interest over time are "interrupted" by an intervention, dividing th...