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Survival enhancing indications for coronary artery bypass graft surgery in CaliforniaZhongmin Li
Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 8:257. 2008..We performed this study to explore variations in clinical indications for CABG surgery among California hospitals and surgeons...
Prognostication and certainty in the pediatric intensive care unitJ P Marcin
Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Pediatrics 104:868-73. 1999..We assessed the performance of nurse and physician mortality risk estimates with and without weighting the estimates with their respective degrees of certainty...- Changes in diagnosis, treatment, and clinical improvement among patients receiving telemedicine consultationsJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Telemed J E Health 11:36-43. 2005..47-4.83) and 11.22 (95% CI: 4.49-31.48), respectively. This study found that telemedicine consultations resulted in changes in diagnosis and treatment regimens and also are associated with clinical improvements... - Nurse staffing and unplanned extubation in the pediatric intensive care unitJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics and Department of Nursing, UC Davis Children s Hospital, University of California Davis, 2516 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 6:254-7. 2005..To determine the association between unplanned extubations and years of nurse experience and nurse-to-patient ratio in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)... - Using telemedicine to provide pediatric subspecialty care to children with special health care needs in an underserved rural communityJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, USA
Pediatrics 113:1-6. 2004..This article reports a medical-needs assessment of parents/guardians with CSHCN and the status of a telemedicine program for CSHCN as well as the results of parent/guardian and local provider satisfaction with the telemedicine program... - The impact of pediatric intensive care unit volume on mortality: a hierarchical instrumental variable analysisJames P Marcin
UC Davis Children s Hospital, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 6:136-41. 2005..To evaluate the relation between annual pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission volume and mortality... - Medication errors among acutely ill and injured children treated in rural emergency departmentsJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:361-7, 367.e1-2. 2007..We identify the incidence, nature, and consequences of medication errors among acutely ill and injured children receiving care in a sample of rural emergency departments (EDs)... - A population-based analysis of socioeconomic status and insurance status and their relationship with pediatric trauma hospitalization and mortality ratesJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, USA
Am J Public Health 93:461-6. 2003..We investigated socioeconomic disparities in injury hospitalization rates and severity-adjusted mortality for pediatric trauma... - Review of the acuity scoring systems for the pediatric intensive care unit and their use in quality improvementJames P Marcin
University of California, Davis Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of California Davis Children s Hospital, Sacramento, CA 35817, USA
J Intensive Care Med 22:131-40. 2007.... - Certainty and mortality prediction in critically ill childrenJ P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of California Davis, UC Davis Children s Hospital, 2516 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Med Ethics 30:304-7. 2004..The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between a physician's subjective mortality prediction and the level of confidence with which that mortality prediction is made... - Use of telemedicine to provide pediatric critical care inpatient consultations to underserved rural Northern CaliforniaJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics and Center for Health and Technology, University of California, Davis, and the Mercy Medical Center Redding, Redding, California 95817, USA
J Pediatr 144:375-80. 2004..Satisfaction and quality of care surveys administered to the pediatric patient's parents and providers were also analyzed... - Long-stay patients in the pediatric intensive care unitJ P Marcin
Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
Crit Care Med 29:652-7. 2001..The clinical profile of LSPs includes those who are younger and those that require chronic care devices. A predictive algorithm could help identify patients at high risk of prolonged stays appropriate for specific interventions... 
Quality of care of children in the emergency department: association with hospital setting and physician trainingMadan Dharmar
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
J Pediatr 153:783-9. 2008..To investigate differences in the quality of emergency care for children related to differences in hospital setting, physician training, and demographic factors...- The CABG surgery volume-outcome relationship: temporal trends and selection effects in California, 1998-2004James P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis Children s Hospital, and Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, 2516 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Health Serv Res 43:174-92. 2008.... - Impact of between-hospital volume and within-hospital volume on mortality and readmission rates for trauma patients in CaliforniaJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Crit Care Med 32:1477-83. 2004..Since this study found that both between-hospital volume and within-hospital volume measures are associated with outcomes, we recommend that both measures be included in future volume-outcome investigations... - Evaluation of race and ethnicity on alcohol and drug testing of adolescents admitted with traumaJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:1253-9. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Whereas small disparities in alcohol and drug testing were noted in some minority race-based groupings, systematic racial bias is not evident in adolescent trauma patients... - Association between evening admissions and higher mortality rates in the pediatric intensive care unitYeseli Arias
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Pediatrics 113:e530-4. 2004..It remains necessary to determine whether this finding results from differences in the structure of care, processes of care, or both... - Triage scoring systems, severity of illness measures, and mortality prediction models in pediatric traumaJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of California-Davis Children's Hospital, Sacramento, CA, USA
Crit Care Med 30:S457-67. 2002..As clinicians and researchers, it is imperative that we be knowledgeable of the methodologies and applications of these scoring and risk prediction systems to ensure their quality and appropriate utilization... - The use of telemedicine to provide pediatric critical care consultations to pediatric trauma patients admitted to a remote trauma intensive care unit: a preliminary reportJames P Marcin
University of California, Davis Children's Hospital, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 5:251-6. 2004.... - Cerebral proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in children with diabetic ketoacidosisS L Wootton-Gorges
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 28:895-9. 2007..We hypothesized that brain NAA/Cr ratios may be decreased in children in DKA, indicating subtle neuronal injury... - The association of race and ethnicity with rates of drug and alcohol testing among US trauma patientsAlexander A Kon
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and The Program in Bioethics, Department of Pediatric, University of California, Davis, 2516 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Health Policy 69:159-67. 2004..The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of race and ethnicity with rates of alcohol and drug testing among adult US trauma patients... - Comparison of critically ill and injured children transferred from referring hospitals versus in-house admissionsChristopher J Gregory
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis Children s Hospital, USA
Pediatrics 121:e906-11. 2008..The purpose of this work was to compare the outcomes, severity of illness, and resource use of patients transferred to PICUs from outside hospitals to patients admitted from within the same hospital... - Prolonged QT interval corrected for heart rate during diabetic ketoacidosis in childrenNathan Kuppermann
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, 2315 Stockton Blvd, PSSB Bldg, Ste 2100, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:544-9. 2008..Prolongation of the QTc has been described in a few children receiving ketogenic diets, but cardiac effects of ketosis have not otherwise been investigated... - Correlation of clinical and biochemical findings with diabetic ketoacidosis-related cerebral edema in children using magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imagingNicole S Glaser
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Pediatr 153:541-6. 2008..To determine clinical and biochemical factors influencing cerebral edema formation during diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in children... - Perceptions of local health care quality in 7 rural communities with telemedicineThomas S Nesbitt
Graduate Medical Education, and Continuing Medical Education at the University of California, Sacramento, CA 85817, USA
J Rural Health 21:79-85. 2005..Rural patients may perceive poor quality in local health care, directly impacting the sustainability of local health care services... - Factors associated with adverse outcomes in children with diabetic ketoacidosis-related cerebral edemaJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics and the Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Davis, USA
J Pediatr 141:793-7. 2002..Greater neurologic depression at the time of diagnosis of cerebral edema and a higher initial serum urea nitrogen concentration are also associated with poor outcome... - Using telemedicine to improve the care delivered to sexually abused children in rural, underserved hospitalsKristen J MacLeod
Department of Pediatrics, CAARE Center, Children s Hospital, California, USA
Pediatrics 123:223-8. 2009..We hypothesized that telemedicine would increase the ability of the rural provider to perform a complete and accurate sexual assault examination... - Complex bioethics consultation in rural hospitals: using telemedicine to bring academic bioethicists into outlying communitiesAlexander A Kon
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis, 2516 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Telemed Telecare 15:264-7. 2009.... - Impact of public reporting on access to coronary artery bypass surgery: the California Outcomes Reporting ProgramZhongmin Li
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 89:1131-8. 2010..However, the impact of this program on operative mortality and access to surgery for high-risk patients has not been clarified... - Inaugural paediatric telehealth colloquiumKourosh Parsapour
UC Davis Children's Hospital, Department of Paediatrics Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Telemed Telecare 13:159-61. 2007 - Mechanism of cerebral edema in children with diabetic ketoacidosisNicole S Glaser
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
J Pediatr 145:164-71. 2004..Cerebral edema during diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) has been attributed to osmotic cellular swelling during treatment. We evaluated cerebral water distribution and cerebral perfusion during DKA treatment in children... - Children with cancer, fever, and treatment-induced neutropenia: risk factors associated with illness requiring the administration of critical care therapiesDaniel C West
Section of Hematology Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 20:79-84. 2004.... - An estimate of the U.S. Government's undercount of nonfatal occupational injuriesJ Paul Leigh
Departmetn of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Medicine School, University of California at Davis, 95616, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:10-8. 2004..We concluded that there was substantial undercapture in the BLS Annual Survey, some due to the excluded categories of government workers and the self-employed, as well as some due to underreporting... - Using telemedicine to improve communication during paediatric resuscitationsAlexander A Kon
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento 95817, USA
J Telemed Telecare 11:261-4. 2005 - Frequency of sub-clinical cerebral edema in children with diabetic ketoacidosisNicole S Glaser
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento 95817, USA
Pediatr Diabetes 7:75-80. 2006.... - Clinical management and patient outcomes among children and adolescents receiving telemedicine consultations for obesityUlfat Shaikh
University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Telemed J E Health 14:434-40. 2008..Treatment changes were associated with improvement in weight status. Telemedicine weight management consultations have the potential to result in modifications in patient care plans and outcomes... - Developing consensus on appropriate standards of disaster care for childrenRobert K Kanter
Division of Critical Care and Inpatient Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 3:27-32. 2009..The objective of our study was to demonstrate a method for developing consensus on hospital disaster interventions that should be regarded as essential, quantitatively balancing needs and resources... - The impact of severe respiratory syncytial virus on the child, caregiver, and family during hospitalization and recoveryNancy Kline Leidy
MEDTAP Institute at UBC, 7101 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Pediatrics 115:1536-46. 2005..To quantify the magnitude of child, caregiver, and family distress associated with hospitalization for severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the posthospitalization recovery period... - Ventilation in pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis--not too much, but not too littleJames P Marcin
Pediatr Crit Care Med 6:489-90. 2005 - Case volume and mortality in pediatric cardiac surgery patients in California, 1998-2003Lianna G Bazzani
University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, USA
Circulation 115:2652-9. 2007..It is unknown whether the volume-mortality association among pediatric cardiac surgery patients is decreasing similarly... - Pediatric patient safety events during hospitalization: approaches to accounting for institution-level effectsAnthony D Slonim
Center for Clinical Effectiveness, The George Washington University School of Medicine, 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, Suite 3 100, Washington, DC, USA
Health Serv Res 42:2275-93; discussion 2294-323. 2007.... - Unplanned extubations: they're not accidentalJames P Marcin
Pediatr Crit Care Med 8:406-7. 2007 - Golden hours wasted: the human cost of intensive care unit and emergency department inefficiencyChristopher J Gregory
Crit Care Med 35:1614-5. 2007 - Time and out-of-pocket costs associated with respiratory syncytial virus hospitalization of infantsShelah Leader
MedImmune, Inc, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, USA
Value Health 6:100-6. 2003..The objective of this study was to quantify time spent plus out-of-pocket costs associated with confirmed respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalization of infants not prophylaxed against RSV... - Size matters to a model's fitJames P Marcin
Crit Care Med 35:2212-3. 2007 - Long-stay patients: are there any long-term solutions?Anthony D Slonim
Crit Care Med 31:313-4. 2003
Research Grants
- Factors Associated with Quality of Care Delivered to Children in US EDsJames P Marcin; Fiscal Year: 2010..academicians, researchers, providers, and policy makers in developing recommendations for quality benchmarks, standards and policies targeted at improving the quality of care delivered to children presenting to EDs across the country ..