32: Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes for All Children Together (IPSO FACTO): Interim Results

etiology and clinical outcomes of neonatal and pediatric sepsis

background sepsis can be defined as the body’s response to an infection. sepsis in children remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. objectives this study focuses on the etiological factors, risk factors, and clinical characteristics of sepsis in neonate and pediatric patients. patients and methods a prospective study was conducted over a six-month period in the pediatr...

Putting It All Together: Improving Display Integration in Ecological Displays

Computer displays are being designed for increasingly larger industrial systems. As the application domain scales up, maintaining integration across different kinds of views becomes more challenging. This paper presents the results of a study of three different approaches to integration based on the spatial and temporal proximity of related information objects. The domain used for evaluation wa...

Improving Health Outcomes for Children (IHOC)

Improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children

were in the bottom third of the math distribution. These are similar figures to those for children currently in poverty, and those who have been in poverty consistently since kindergarten, but they differ dramatically from those of children of college-educated mothers. Only 10 percent of children with college-educated mothers score in the bottom third of the fifth grade reading distribution, wh...

Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children

One of the best ways to avoid being poor as an adult is to obtain a good education. Individuals with higher academic achievement and more years of schooling earn more than those with lower levels of human capital. This is not surprising given that we believe that schooling makes people more productive, allowing them to command higher wages in the labor market. This paper offers a message of tem...