Understanding Disparities in the Pediatric ICU: A Scoping Review.

Background And Objectives: Health disparities are pervasive in pediatrics. We aimed to describe disparities among patients who are likely to be cared for in the PICU and delineate how sociodemographic data are collected and categorized.

Methods: Using MEDLINE as a data source, we identified studies which included an objective to assess sociodemographic disparities among PICU patients in the United States.

A Tale of 8 Cities: Pediatric Critical Care Redeployment to Adult Care During Wave 1 of COVID-19.

Background: Pediatric hospital resources including critical care faculty (intensivists) redeployed to provide care to adults in adult ICUs or repurposed PICUs during wave 1 of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Objectives: To determine the magnitude of pediatric hospital resource redeployment and the experience of pediatric intensivists who redeployed to provide critical care to adults with COVID-19.

Methods: A mixed methods study was conducted at 9 hospitals in 8 United States cities where pediatric resources were redeployed to provide care to critically ill adults with COVID-19.

Clinician Accuracy in Identifying and Predicting Organ Dysfunction in Critically Ill Children.

Objectives: To determine clinician accuracy in the identification and prediction of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: University of Michigan's C.