Aligning Newborn Hyperbilirubinemia Care With American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines at an Urban Community Hospital.

Background: In August 2022, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its newborn hyperbilirubinemia guideline. This quality improvement initiative aimed to reduce newborns receiving inpatient phototherapy and subthreshold phototherapy initiation by 50% in 12 months.

Methods: A multidisciplinary team implemented interventions at an urban community hospital in Wisconsin.

Resident Perspectives on Palliative Care at an Urban Teaching Hospital.

There has been an increasing need to address end of life (EOL) care and palliative care in an era when measures to extend life for terminal illnesses are often initiated without consideration of quality of life. Addressing the barriers for resident physicians to initiate EOL conversations with patients is an important step towards eliminating the disconnect between patient wishes and provider goals. To assess resident physician perspectives on initiating palliative care conversations with terminally ill patients at an urban teaching hospital.

Retrospective Pediatric Telepalliative Care Experience.

Rady Children's Hospital (RCH) offers an outpatient pediatric palliative clinic that began offering telepalliative care in 2016. This study describes demographics of parents receiving pediatric telepalliative care, patient/family satisfaction with telepalliative care, and patient/family perspectives. Retrospective electronic medical record chart review (2016-2020) of telepalliative patients at RCH (San Diego, USA), including satisfaction surveys.

Transcriptional profiling of the ductus arteriosus: Comparison of rodent microarrays and human RNA sequencing.

DA closure is crucial for the transition from fetal to neonatal life. This closure is supported by changes to the DA's signaling and structural properties that distinguish it from neighboring vessels. Examining transcriptional differences between these vessels is key to identifying genes or pathways responsible for DA closure.