Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital

Why Not Antivirals? Reconsidering Influenza Treatment in Children

In this issue of Pediatrics, Huang et al1 shed important light on the association between antiviral use and reduced influenza-related hospitalizations in children. Using a large national health care database from Taiwan and accounting for a number of clinically relevant factors,...

Bridging Practice and Publication: Reexamining Quality Improvement in Pediatric Scholarship

Quality improvement (QI) publication rates in pediatrics surged through the early 21st century yet have noticeably plateaued since that time, a paradoxical shift given the volume of ongoing improvement work across pediatric health systems. We propose that the gap lies not in the...

Effect of time to palliative epilepsy surgery on outcomes

Abstract Objective Epilepsy duration is a modifiable risk factor in the outcome of definitive epilepsy surgery; however, an analogous effect in palliative procedures has not been shown. We reviewed the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Database data for an association between epilepsy d...