Super interesting article with a CNCM first author (Dr. Stockwell of the PICU)! A Trigger Tool to Detect Harm in Pediatric Inpatient Settings The authors developed a novel pediatric trigger tool to determine rates of harm in hospitalized patients. The tool searched the medical record for high risk words, phrases or orders (for example, naloxone […]
Byline: Katie Donnelly
AOTW: Limping By on Splint Placement
This comes from a NY Times article Mistakes in Treating Childhood Fractures published late last week that references an abstract presented at the AAP Conference. This abstract seems to be getting a good bit of press (second only to keynote speaker Hilary Clinton getting heckled by someone with a bullphone), so this may be brought […]
AOTW: The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath The article this week comes from the New York Times excellent series on medical costs in the US. This one deals with the cost of asthma medications, a common set of prescriptions that our patients should be taking but often can’t or aren’t. There are two things in […]