Advancing Collaborative Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Through Temporally Based Predictive Modeling of a Large Scale National CDRN
Predictive models on temporal data in the form of observations in a sequence or series have helped make headway in utilizing large sets of clinical data collected from health systems in the electronic medical record and billing systems to predict…
Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with Overweight and Obesity Treated for Lower Respiratory Tract Disease
The goal of this project was to investigate potential associations between weight status and clinical outcomes of children treated for viral or bacterial lower respiratory tract infections or asthma. Our hypothesis was that children with overweight and obesity will have…
The Economic Case for Eating Disorders Prevention and Early Detection: A Comparative Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis of Six Intervention Strategies
Scaling up eating disorders prevention strategies for population-wide impact will require the field to adopt a new and concerted focus on policy translation research. Decades of research have been done to identify what works to prevent and treat eating disorders….
Automating Quality and Safety Benchmarking for Children: Meeting the Needs of Health Systems and Patients
Our aim is to implement and test electronic measures of outpatient pediatric healthcare quality and safety using the PCORI Common Data Model.The PCORnet Common Data Model is a way of organizing data, including data mined directly from the electronic health…
Assessment of Pediatric Radiation Exposure from Computed Tomography
The objective of this study is to identify pediatric cohorts with the highest levels of radiation exposure from CT scanning by merging EMR data elements with an automated method for calculating cumulative, patient level radiation exposure. The results of this…
Comparative Effectiveness of Narrow Versus Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Use On ED Revisit Rates In Pediatric Pneumonia
We propose to evaluate the impact of antibiotic prescribing patterns on hospital revisit rates among children with community acquired pneumonia. 1) Among children discharged from emergency department (ED) with Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP), does antibiotic prescribing patterns impact 3-day and 7-day…
Short- and Long-term Effects of Antibiotics on Childhood Growth
The objectives of the proposed study are to assess the effects of different types, timing, and amount of antibiotic use in the first two years of life with (Specific Aim 1) body mass index (BMI) and obesity at ages 5…
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