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| Sharon R SmithSummaryAffiliation: Connecticut Children's Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Endotracheal intubation and pediatric status asthmaticus: site of original care affects treatmentChristopher L Carroll
Pediatric Critical Care, Connecticut Children s Medical Center, Hartford, CT, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 8:91-5. 2007..Our hypothesis was that children who sought care at community hospitals received less aggressive treatment and more frequent intubation than children who sought care at a children's hospital...- Childhood overweight increases hospital admission rates for asthmaChristopher L Carroll
Department of Pediatrics, Connecticut Children s Medical Center, 282 Washington St, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Pediatrics 120:734-40. 2007..We hypothesized that overweight children who presented to the emergency department with asthma exacerbations were more likely to be admitted to the hospital than nonoverweight children... - Asthma coaching in the pediatric emergency departmentSharon R Smith
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine and St Louis Children s Hospital, St Louis, MO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:835-9. 2006..The authors performed a randomized, controlled trial of an intervention combining asthma coaching during an emergency department (ED) visit for asthma, and monetary incentive to improve follow-up with primary care providers (PCP)... - Improving follow-up for children with asthma after an acute Emergency Department visitSharon R Smith
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis Children s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Pediatr 145:772-7. 2004..To improve follow-up with primary care providers after acute Emergency Department (ED) asthma visits for children from low-income urban families... - Refinement of an instrument to evaluate parental attitudes about follow-up care after an acute emergency department visit for asthmaSharon R Smith
Division of Emergency Medicine, St Louis Children s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Asthma 42:587-92. 2005..Prompt follow-up after emergency department (ED) care for asthma allows the primary care provider (PCP) and family to review factors that led to the ED visit, update current care plans, and plan for prevention of future exacerbations... - Relationship between pediatric primary provider visits and acute asthma ED visitsSharon R Smith
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Connecticut Children s Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 42:1041-7. 2007..The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between primary care provider visits and emergency department (ED) asthma visits for urban, minority children... - Parental impressions of the benefits (pros) and barriers (cons) of follow-up care after an acute emergency department visit for children with asthmaSharon R Smith
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, St Louis Children s Hospital, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Pediatrics 110:323-30. 2002..Follow-up care after ED visits is infrequent. We developed and evaluated an instrument that describes the parental benefits (pros) and barriers (cons) of obtaining follow-up care for interventions to promote follow-up... 
Home use of albuterol for asthma exacerbationsJane M Garbutt
Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 102:504-9. 2009..Yet, ED visits for asthma are frequent and often occur several days after onset of increased symptoms, particularly for children from low-income, urban neighborhoods...
Acute asthma management by a pediatric after-hours call centerKyle A Nelson
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Telemed J E Health 15:538-45. 2009..This protocol may also be successful in other locations and may improve outcomes, such as reduction in ED visits...- Recruitment into a long-term pediatric asthma study during emergency department visitsSharon R Smith
Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine, St Louis Children s Hospital, St Louis, Missouri 63110 1077, USA
J Asthma 41:477-84. 2004..The purpose of this manuscript is to describe the recruitment process and the results of our recruitment in soliciting children and their parents to participate in an ED-based asthma research study... - Pilot study of oral montelukast added to standard therapy for acute asthma exacerbations in children aged 6 to 14 yearsKyle A Nelson
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 24:21-7. 2008.... - Validation of the pulmonary score: an asthma severity score for childrenSharon R Smith
Washington University School of Medicine and St Louis Children s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, MO 63110, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:99-104. 2002..The purpose of this study was to begin validation trials of the PS by comparing it with the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR)... - A prospective multicenter study of patient factors associated with hospital admission from the emergency department among children with acute asthmaCharles V Pollack
Department of Emergency Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, 800 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:934-40. 2002....