Inpatient Hospital Factors and Resident Time With Patients and Families.

Objectives: To define hospital factors associated with proportion of time spent by pediatric residents in direct patient care.

Methods: We assessed 6222 hours of time-motion observations from a representative sample of 483 pediatric-resident physicians delivering inpatient care across 9 pediatric institutions. The primary outcome was percentage of direct patient care time (DPCT) during a single observation session (710 sessions).

AKI in hospitalized children: epidemiology and clinical associations in a national cohort.

Background And Objectives: Although AKI is common among hospitalized children, comprehensive epidemiologic data are lacking. This study characterizes pediatric AKI across the United States and identifies AKI risk factors using high-content/high-throughput analytic techniques.

Design, Setting, Participants, & Measurements: For the cross-sectional analysis of the 2009 Kids Inpatient Database, AKI events were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes.