Here’s what EMS providers should know about the updated standards, national assessments and opportunities to improve ...

The cost to reach higher readiness levels is modest — an estimated $4–$48 per pediatric patient — with potential to significantly reduce mortality ...

Parents of children with disabilities and their advocates are frustrated by a new questionnaire being used by the state to determine a child’s home-health-care needs. The survey has resulted in ...

Researchers from the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada have developed a new referral process and Frenotomy Assessment Tool to determine the proportion of breastfeeding infants with TT ...

The new American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) Pediatric Surgical Risk Calculator is the first web-based tool to help surgeons estimate the surgical ...

A new, computerized, mental health assessment tool may allow doctors to quickly identify children experiencing anxiety or depression before surgery, suggests new research presented at the ...

Implementing the Family Nutrition and Physical Activity Screening (FNPA) tool and motivational interviewing techniques in the pediatric primary care setting can improve childhood overweight/obesity ...

The N-KICS tool (Nursing-Kids Intensity of Care Survey) is the first pediatric-specific tool designed to describe the intensity of nursing care for children with CMC. Recent medical advances have ...

Community-acquired pediatric pneumonia. Researchers developed a clinical tool to predict prolonged hospital stays in patients with pediatric community-acquired pneumonia. Pleural fluid lactic ...

Country-specific two-page reports display study findings on pediatric palliative care education, access to pediatric palliative care services, and barriers to and timing of integration with cancer ...

BackgroundChildren around the world experience pain in very different contexts, shaped by geography, culture, health systems, and social inequities. Despite ...

Reflex Testing for Germline BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, and ATM Mutations in Pancreatic Cancer: Mutation Prevalence and Clinical Outcomes From Two Canadian Research Registries One hundred eleven participants ...