Personality, environmental stressors, and diarrhea in Rhesus macaques: An interactionist perspective.

Previous research has repeatedly shown both personality and psychological stress to predict gastrointestinal disorders and chronic diarrhea in humans. The goal of the present research was to evaluate the role of personality, as well as psychological stressors (i.e.

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.