Priorities for Pediatric Patient Safety Research

Global priorities for patient safety research.

Priorities for pediatric prehospital research.

UNLABELLED Up to 3 million US children are cared for by emergency medical services (EMSs) annually. Limited research exists on pediatric prehospital care. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) mission is to perform high-quality research for children, including prehospital research. Our objective was to develop a pediatric-specific prehospital research agenda. METHODS ...

Setting priorities for patient safety.

BACKGROUND Current "flags" for adverse events (AEs) are biased towards those with serious outcomes, potentially leading to failure to address mundane common problems. AIM To provide a basis for setting priorities to improve patient safety by ranking adverse events by resource consumption as well as by outcome. This was done by classifying a set of AEs, according to how they may be prevented, ...

Setting economic priorities for patient safety programs and patient safety research using case mix costing data

Methods Patient level costs are estimated using computerized patient costing systems that initially log individual utilization of inpatient services, and then apply sophisticated cost estimates from the hospital's general ledger. The occurrence of a hospital-acquired diagnosis is identified using a new Australian 'condition-onset' flag for all diagnoses not present on admission. These diagnoses...

Pediatric sleep medicine: priorities for research, patient care, policy and education.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To achieve consensus among pediatric sleep medicine practitioners on recommendations for the advancement of the field in the areas of research, clinical practice, education, and public policy. METHODS Leading pediatric sleep medicine researchers and clinicians, in collaboration with Brown Medical School, convened a conference to discuss the state of the field. Participants eng...