Dr. Doug Diekema is a pediatric emergency department physician, bioethicist, and professor. He works at Seattle Children’s Hospital where he is Co-Director of Education for the Treuman Katz Center for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pediatric ED readiness reduced mortality overall but especially so among Black children presenting with acute ...

Hackensack University Medical Center’s pediatric emergency department has significantly reduced patient wait times and its left-before-treatment-complete rate through a series of targeted patient-flow ...

Marietta, Ohio-based Memorial Health System opened a new pediatric emergency department at its Belpre Medical Campus Jan. 2. The eight-bed ED is a partnership between Memorial Health System and Akron ...

In a study of pediatric mental and behavioral health (MBH)-related encounters in the emergency department (ED), the 14-item Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA) tool as well ...

Approximately one in three pediatric mental health Emergency Department (ED) visits resulting in admission or transfer exceeded 12 hours, and over one in eight exceeded 24 hours, according to ...

When an ill or injured child arrives at an emergency department, clinicians face a balancing act when considering how advanced imaging can assist with a diagnosis, particularly if their facility does ...

Slawa Rokicki ([email protected]), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey. In New Jersey, universal screening for perinatal depression at the time of delivery has resulted in a 95 percent ...