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| Evaline A AlessandriniSummaryAffiliation: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Developing a diagnosis-based severity classification system for use in emergency medical services for childrenEvaline A Alessandrini
Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence and Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:70-8. 2012....- A new diagnosis grouping system for child emergency department visitsEvaline A Alessandrini
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:204-13. 2010..The second objective was to assess the construct validity of the DGS by examining variation in the frequency of targeted groups of diagnoses within the concepts of season, age, sex, and hospital type... - Emergency department quality: an analysis of existing pediatric measuresEvaline Alessandrini
Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center EA, KV, OH, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:519-26. 2011..The authors undertook this study with the goals of enumerating and categorizing existing performance measures relevant to pediatric emergency care... 
Shared decision making and behavioral impairment: a national study among children with special health care needsAlexander G Fiks
The Pediatric Research Consortium PeRC, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
BMC Pediatr 12:153. 2012..This study examined the longitudinal association of SDM with behavioral impairment among children with special health care needs (CSHCN)...- Urgency classification methods for emergency department visits: do they measure up?Rakesh D Mistry
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 24:870-4. 2008.... 
Lack of agreement in pediatric emergency department discharge diagnoses from clinical and administrative data sourcesMarc H Gorelick
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:646-52. 2007..Diagnosis information from existing data sources is used commonly for epidemiologic, administrative, and research purposes. The quality of such data for emergency department (ED) visits is unknown...- A qualitative assessment of reasons for nonurgent visits to the emergency department: parent and health professional opinionsEvan S Fieldston
Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 28:220-5. 2012..The objectives of this study were to elicit and to describe guardians' and health professionals' opinions on reasons for nonurgent pediatric ED visits... - A system for grouping presenting complaints: the pediatric emergency reason for visit clustersMarc H Gorelick
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:723-31. 2005..To develop a set of chief complaint groupings for pediatric emergency department (ED) visits that is comprehensive, parsimonious, clinically sensible, and evidence-based... - Revised Pediatric Emergency Assessment Tool (RePEAT): a severity index for pediatric emergency careMarc H Gorelick
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:316-23. 2007..To develop and validate a multivariable model, using information available at the time of patient triage, to predict the level of care provided to pediatric emergency patients for use as a severity of illness measure... - Categorizing urgency of infant emergency department visits: agreement between criteriaRakesh D Mistry
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:1304-11. 2006..The lack of valid classification methods for emergency department (ED) visit urgency has resulted in large variation in reported rates of nonurgent ED utilization... - Effects of an education and training intervention on caregiver knowledge of nonurgent pediatric complaints and on child health services utilizationEvan S Fieldston
Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 29:331-6. 2013..The objective of this study was to test the impact of an education and training intervention about management of common childhood illnesses on caregiver knowledge and health service use by an index child... - Shared decision-making and health care expenditures among children with special health care needsAlexander G Fiks
The Pediatric Generalist Research Group PeRC, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market Suite, Room 1546, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 129:99-107. 2012..To understand the association between shared decision-making (SDM) and health care expenditures and use among children with special health care needs (CSHCN)... - Effects of continuity of care in infancy on receipt of lead, anemia, and tuberculosis screeningAna I Flores
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 121:e399-406. 2008.... - A survey of emergency department management of acute urticaria in childrenSuzanne M Beno
Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 23:862-8. 2007..To describe emergency department management of acute urticaria in children and to determine factors associated with management strategies and adherence to practice guidelines... - Methods of categorizing emergency department visit urgency: a survey of pediatric emergency medicine physiciansDavid C Brousseau
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine and the Children s Research Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 22:635-9. 2006..Our objectives were to determine the methods thought to be most valid and to understand expert perceptions of nonurgent ED utilization... - Electronic medical record use in pediatric primary careAlexander G Fiks
The Pediatric Research Consortium PeRC, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 18:38-44. 2011..To characterize patterns of electronic medical record (EMR) use at pediatric primary care acute visits... - Placement changes and emergency department visits in the first year of foster careDavid M Rubin
Division of General Pediatrics, Pediatric Generalist Research Group, Safe Place Center for Child Protection and Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pediatrics 114:e354-60. 2004..The secondary aim was to compare ED visit rates with rates of visits to other ambulatory care settings among children in foster care and other Medicaid-eligible children not in foster care... - Return visits to a pediatric emergency departmentEvaline A Alessandrini
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 20:166-71. 2004..To determine the incidence of return visits (RVs), types of RVs, and factors associated with RVs to a pediatric emergency department (ED)... - Women of child-bearing age have better inhospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes than do equal-aged menAlexis A Topjian
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 38:1254-60. 2010..Our objective was to determine whether women of child-bearing age are more likely than men to survive to hospital discharge after in-hospital cardiac arrest... - Oral versus intravenous rehydration of moderately dehydrated children: a randomized, controlled trialPhilip R Spandorfer
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 115:295-301. 2005.... - Pediatric emergency medicine research: a critical evaluationPhilip R Spandorfer
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 19:293-301. 2003....