Inpatient capacity at children's hospitals during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak, United StatesMarion R Sills
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 17:1685-91. 2011
..The pandemic did not exhaust inpatient bed capacity, but a more virulent pandemic has the potential to push children's hospitals past their maximum inpatient capacity...
Emergency department crowding is associated with decreased quality of care for childrenMarion R Sills
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 27:837-45. 2011
..We sought to determine which of several simple indicators of emergency department crowding are most predictive of quality of care in 2 pediatric disease models: acute asthma and pain associated with long-bone fractures...
- Emergency department crowding is associated with decreased quality of care for children with acute asthma
Marion R Sills
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Ann Emerg Med 57:191-200.e1-7. 2011
..We seek to determine which dimensions of quality of care are most influenced by emergency department (ED) crowding for patients with acute asthma exacerbations...
- Resource burden at children's hospitals experiencing surge volumes during the spring 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic
Marion R Sills
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital, Aurora, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:158-66. 2011
..The objective was to describe the emergency department (ED) resource burden of the spring 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic at U.S. children's hospitals by quantifying observed-to-expected utilization...
- Emergency department crowding is associated with decreased quality of analgesia delivery for children with pain related to acute, isolated, long-bone fractures
Marion R Sills
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Outcomes Research Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1330-8. 2011
..The authors sought to determine which quality measures of analgesia delivery are most influenced by emergency department (ED) crowding for pediatric patients with long-bone fractures...
- Addressing inpatient crowding by smoothing occupancy at children's hospitals
Evan S Fieldston
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
J Hosp Med 6:462-8. 2011
..To quantify the difference in weekday versus weekend occupancy, and the opportunity to smooth inpatient occupancy to reduce crowding at children's hospitals...
- Multicenter analysis of quality indicators for children treated in the emergency department for asthma
Marion R Sills
Department Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Pediatrics 129:e325-32. 2012
..To test the hypothesis that an association exists between process and outcome measures of the quality of acute asthma care provided to children in the emergency department...
- Multicenter study of chronic asthma severity among emergency department patients with acute asthma
Marion R Sills
Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA
J Asthma 47:920-8. 2010
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