University of Cincinnati Medical Center

Clinical and mechanistic validation of skin gravitational stretchability as a new metric for skin aging assessment

Maintaining the skin’s dynamic resilience and youthful compliance is crucial to resisting the visible signs of aging, particularly sagging. We modified a previously reported non-invasive tensile method that simulates the gravitational pull on facial skin for the direct measuremen...

Continuous Publishing as Next Step in Continuous Improvement at Hospital Pediatrics

We are excited to announce that Hospital Pediatrics has moved to a continuous publishing model. What is continuous publishing? It is a relatively new model in which articles are published shortly after acceptance versus the historical model of publication occurring when space was...

Variation in In-Hospital Emergency Transfer Rates Across Pediatric Hospitals

BACKGROUND: Clinical deterioration with late escalation, termed emergency transfer (ET), is a key safety metric. However, national benchmarking is limited by variable definitions. We sought to estimate pooled ET rates and assess variation across pediatric hospitals. METHODS: We p...

Increasing Rate of Pott’s Puffy Tumor Hospitalizations Among US Children

BACKGROUND: Pott's puffy tumor is a rare complication of sinusitis characterized by osteomyelitis of the frontal bone with subperiosteal abscess, often with intracranial sequelae. Although complications of sinusitis increased after the pandemic, it is unclear whether rates of Pot...

Prenatal therapies to improve outcomes in gastroschisis: a systematic scoping review protocol

INTRODUCTION: Gastroschisis is a congenital birth defect with a rising incidence. The herniation of intestines into the amniotic cavity leads to prenatal bowel injury, which contributes to significant postnatal morbidity and mortality. Current management focuses on postnatal inte...

Beyond ‘diagnostic error’: an ethnography of resilient behaviours and system adaptations in paediatric outpatient diagnosis

Background Improving paediatric diagnosis by addressing errors (Safety-I) is insufficient for diagnostic excellence. Resilience engineering’s approach to understanding adaptations to achieve success in everyday work may elucidate how individuals and systems manage diagnostic comp...

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...

Serotonergic Antidepressant Use Is Not Associated with Increased Revision but Alters Postoperative Pain Following Rotator Cuff Repair

Rotator cuff tears are common, and although surgical repair is frequently performed, re-tear and complication rates remain substantial. The impact of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) on postoperative outcomes...

Disparities in Hospital Length of Stay and Morbidity in Acute Care Pediatric Cardiology Patients

BACKGROUND Multicenter collaborative studies examining disparities in in-hospital outcomes are lacking in pediatric cardiology. We hypothesized that Black and Hispanic patients in pediatric acute care cardiology units (ACCUs) have increased length of stay (LOS) and complications...

Predicting infection risk in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving biological or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: an application of machine learning and healthcare big data

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) initiating biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (b/ts DMARDs) face elevated risk of serious infections, necessitating tools for individualized risk stratification. Primary objective was to develop and validat...

Preparing Leaders in Primary Care Transformation: A Mental Health Curriculum

The demand for mental health services is rising, and given the continued shortage of mental health specialists, primary care remains a critical setting for mental health treatment. Training emerging leaders in primary care to integrate interprofessional behavioral health services...

Pulmonary Hypoplasia

Pulmonary hypoplasia is a rare but clinically significant congenital disorder characterized by impaired fetal lung development, leading to impaired growth and maturation of lung parenchyma and pulmonary vasculature. Stemming from a diverse group of underlying etiologies including...

Maternal influenza vaccination boosts durable breast milk antibody-mediated protection in infants

Influenza contributes to significant disease burden worldwide, and young infants are at an increased risk of severe influenza infection. Maternal antibodies transferred across the placenta and through breast milk confer anti-influenza immunity to the newborn. Placental transfer p...