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Open AccessCrosswalk between the PROMIS physical function CAT and PROMIS upper extremity CAT v1.2 in a hand surgery population
There is no gold standard patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) in hand surgery. As a result, a diverse array of PROM instruments have been utilized across centers over time. Lack of score interchangeability...
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Extracardiac Manifestations Fail to Predict the Severity of Cardiac Phenotype in Children and Young Adults with Marfan Syndrome
We performed a secondary analysis of the Pediatric Heart Network (PHN) Marfan Trial public-use database to evaluate associations between extracardiac features and cardiac and aortic phenotypes in study partici...
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Open AccessProtocol for a parallel cluster randomized trial of a participatory tailored approach to reduce overuse of antibiotics at hospital discharge: the ROAD home trial
Antibiotic overuse at hospital discharge is common, costly, and harmful. While discharge-specific antibiotic stewardship interventions are effective, they are resource-intensive and often infeasible for hospit...
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Open AccessImpact of COVID-19 visitation policies and hospital capacity on discharge readiness in medicine patients
COVID-19 impacted the experience of being hospitalized with the widespread adoption of strict visitation policies to ensure healthcare worker safety. One result was decreased time of caregivers at the bedside ...
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Open AccessReducing Stress after Trauma (ReSeT): study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial of an online psychoeducational program and video therapy sessions for children hospitalized after trauma
Post-traumatic stress symptoms develop in a quarter to half of injured children affecting their longer-term psychologic and physical health. Evidence-based care exists for post-traumatic stress; however, it is...
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Prediction Model with External Validation for Early Detection of Postoperative Pediatric Chylothorax
Earlier diagnosis of chylothorax following pediatric cardiac surgery is associated with decreased duration of chylothorax. Pleural fluid testing is used to diagnosis chylothorax which may delay detection in pa...
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Physiology of Dysphagia in Those with Unilateral Vocal Fold Immobility
Quantitative measures of swallowing function were extracted from modified barium swallowing studies (MBS) to characterize swallowing pathophysiology in patients with unilateral vocal fold immobility (UVFI). Al...
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Open AccessLongitudinal clonal tracking in humanized mice reveals sustained polyclonal repopulation of gene-modified human-HSPC despite vector integration bias
Current understanding of hematopoiesis is largely derived from mouse models that are physiologically distant from humans. Humanized mice provide the most physiologically relevant small animal model to study hu...
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Changes in Provider Prescribing Behavior for Infants with Single Ventricle Physiology After Evidence-Based Publications
The impact of published evidence on clinical practice has been understudied in pediatric cardiology.
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Implications of Changing Z-Score Models for Coronary Artery Dimensions in Kawasaki Disease
Coronary artery abnormalities in Kawasaki disease (KD) are assessed using echocardiographic z-scores. We hypothesized that changing the coronary artery (CA) z-score model would alter diagnosis and management of c...
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Implications of Left Ventricular Dysfunction at Presentation for Infants with Coarctation of the Aorta
Infants with aortic coarctation may present with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction which may complicate the postoperative course and lead to increased healthcare costs. We aimed to define the prevalence of mod...
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Torque application helps to diagnose incomplete syndesmotic injuries using weight-bearing computed tomography images
Accurate identification of distal tibio-fibular syndesmotic injuries is essential to limit potential deleterious post-traumatic effects. To date, conventional radiographs, computed tomography (CT), and magneti...
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Respiratory Testing and Hospital Outcomes in Asymptomatic Infants Undergoing Heart Surgery
Respiratory viral infections in infants undergoing congenital heart surgery lead to prolonged intubation time, hospital (HLOS) and cardiac intensive care unit length of stay (CICU LOS). The objective of this s...
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Open AccessProtocol for a randomized clinical trial investigating early sacral nerve stimulation as an adjunct to standard neurogenic bladder management following acute spinal cord injury
Neurogenic bladder (NGB) dysfunction after spinal cord injury (SCI) is generally irreversible. Preliminary animal and human studies have suggested that initiation of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) immediately fo...
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Do paternal semen parameters influence the birth weight or BMI of the offspring? A study from the Utah Population Database
To study the role of individual semen parameters on the offspring birth weight and body mass index (BMI) from a population of men evaluated in an assisted reproduction technology (ART) clinic compared to ferti...
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The Neurogenic Bladder Symptom Score (NBSS): a secondary assessment of its validity, reliability among people with a spinal cord injury
Prospective cross-sectional study.
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Prevalence of Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors and Metabolic Syndrome in Children with Heart Disease
Children with acquired and congenital heart disease (CHD) are increasingly surviving to adulthood. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors in children at known ris...
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Open AccessUse of Prazosin for Pediatric PTSD-Associated Nightmares and Sleep Disturbances: A Retrospective Chart Review
Youth exposed to trauma have an increased risk for develo** posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and associated sleep disturbances and nightmares. The alpha-1 antagonist prazosin reduces sleep disturbances a...
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Open AccessStudy protocol: patient reported outcomes for bladder management strategies in spinal cord injury
The majority of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients have urinary issues, such as incontinence, retention, and frequency. These problems place a significant burden on patients’ physical health and quality of life...
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Hemoglobin Level at Stage 1 Discharge has No Impact on Inter-stage Growth and Stability in Single Ventricle Infants
Hemoglobin levels (Hgb) of infants with a single ventricle (SV) are traditionally maintained high to maximize oxygen-carrying capacity during stage 1 palliation (S1P), stage 2 palliation (S2P), and between sta...
