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Practice variation in the emergency management of croupLouis C Hampers
Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Children s Hospital Pediatric Urgent Care Network, Children s Hospital, Denver, Colorado 80218, USA
Pediatrics 109:505-8. 2002..To explore the effect of physician training background on the emergency management of croup...
Evaluation and management of pediatric febrile seizures in the emergency departmentLouis C Hampers
Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 29:83-93. 2011..Care-givers should be informed that the risk of developing epilepsy after a simple febrile seizure is low, but that complex febrile seizures carry a significantly higher risk...
Fast track and the pediatric emergency department: resource utilization and patients outcomesL C Hampers
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA
Acad Emerg Med 6:1153-9. 1999..To examine differences in the evaluation, management, and outcomes for patients seen in an on-site "fast track" (FT) vs the main ED...
Setting-based practice variation in the management of simple febrile seizureL C Hampers
Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA
Acad Emerg Med 7:21-7. 2000..To identify provider-based differences in the ED assessment and management of children presenting with uncomplicated, first-time febrile seizures...
Febrile seizure: measuring adherence to AAP guidelines among community ED physiciansLouis C Hampers
Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital, Denver, CO 80218, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 22:465-9. 2006..We sought to describe recent patterns of the emergency department (ED) evaluation of febrile seizures with respect to these parameters...
Regional after-hours urgent care provided by a tertiary children's hospitalLouis C Hampers
Children s Hospital Pediatric Urgent Care Network, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado 80218, USA
Pediatrics 110:1117-24. 2002..Yet many primary care pediatricians (PCPs) desire after-hours urgent care for their patients as an alternative to extended office hours or care by general emergency medicine providers at community hospitals...
Professional interpreters and bilingual physicians in a pediatric emergency department: effect on resource utilizationLouis C Hampers
Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital, Denver, Colo 80218, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:1108-13. 2002..To determine the impact of interpreters and bilingual physicians on emergency department (ED) resource utilization...
Language barriers and resource utilization in a pediatric emergency departmentL C Hampers
Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School, Children s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pediatrics 103:1253-6. 1999..Although an inability to speak English is recognized as an obstacle to health care in the United States, it is unclear how clinicians alter their diagnostic approach when confronted with a language barrier (LB)...
Children with first-time simple febrile seizures are at low risk of serious bacterial illnessJ L Trainor
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Acad Emerg Med 8:781-7. 2001..To describe the rates of serious bacterial illness (SBI) in children presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with first-time uncomplicated febrile seizures...
Primary care and emergency department decision makingJ E McNulty
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Memorial Hospital, Campus Box 62, 2300 Children s Plaza, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 155:1266-70. 2001..To determine the effect of primary care status on decision making in the pediatric emergency department (ED)...
Teaching Spanish to pediatric emergency physicians: effects on patient satisfactionSuzan S Mazor
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Memorial Hospital, 2300 Children s Plaza, Box 62, Chicago, IL 60614, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:693-5. 2002..Language barriers are known to negatively affect patient satisfaction...
Management of pediatric traumaSteven E Krug
Pediatrics 121:849-54. 2008....
Job market survey of recent pediatric emergency medicine fellowship graduatesTien T Vu
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, The Children s Hospital, Section of Emergency Medicine, Denver, CO 80218, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 23:304-7. 2007....
Correction of factitious hyperkalemia in hemolyzed specimensHeather Owens
Department of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital, Denver, CO 80218, USA
Am J Emerg Med 23:872-5. 2005..Values of serum K+ become falsely elevated secondary to release of intracellular contents. If a reliable correction factor existed for this factitious elevation, repeat K+ measurements might be avoided...
Cecal retention of a swallowed penny mimicking appendicitis in a healthy 2 year oldJennifer S Betz
The Children s Hospital, Denver, CO 80218, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 20:525-7. 2004..We present the first report of cecal retention of a penny in a previously healthy 2 year old, ultimately resulting in surgical intervention...
Physician variation in test ordering in the management of gastroenteritis in childrenElizabeth C Powell
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University s Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:978-83. 2003..To describe the variation among physicians in test ordering when caring for children with gastroenteritis and to explore the effect of hospital charge information on such variation...
The truth about language barriers: one residency program's experienceSonja C Burbano O'Leary
Pediatric Residency Program, The Children s Hospital, Denver, Colorado, USA
Pediatrics 111:e569-73. 2003..To describe perceptions of how a lack of house staff Spanish proficiency adversely affects communication with Spanish-speaking families with limited English proficiency (LEP)...
Performance of a decision rule for radiographs of pediatric knee injuriesBrian R Moore
Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado, USA
J Emerg Med 28:257-61. 2005..No additional value to the rule was found by adding assessment of the ability to flex the knee or bony tenderness...
Patient- and family-centered care of children in the emergency departmentKathleen Brown
Pediatrics 122:e511-21. 2008..This report is also supported by the Emergency Nurses Association...
