Publications by authors named "J DeLaRosa"
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- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database is a major global resource on congenital heart surgeries, but lacks data on complications, comorbidities, and long-term patient outcomes.
- This study assessed how effectively this database could be linked to hospital electronic health records in North Carolina and Georgia, using both indirect and direct identifiers.
- Results showed that indirect linkage matched 79% of admissions, while direct methods achieved up to 99.5% success, demonstrating the effectiveness of integrating surgical data with electronic records for better patient care insights.
(R,S)-Ketamine (ketamine) is a dissociative anesthetic that also possesses analgesic and antidepressant activity. Undesirable dissociative side effects and misuse potential limit expanded use of ketamine in several mental health disorders despite promising clinical activity and intensifying medical need. (2R,6R)-Hydroxynorketamine (RR-HNK) is a metabolite of ketamine that lacks anesthetic and dissociative activity but maintains antidepressant and analgesic activity in multiple preclinical models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMeasures of physical growth, such as weight and height have long been the predominant outcomes for monitoring child health and evaluating interventional outcomes in public health studies, including those that may impact neurodevelopment. While physical growth generally reflects overall health and nutritional status, it lacks sensitivity and specificity to brain growth and developing cognitive skills and abilities. Psychometric tools, e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Children enrolled in private insurance had reduced preventive health care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the impact of the pandemic on children enrolled in Medicaid has been minimally described.
Methods: We used an administrative claims database from North Carolina Medicaid to evaluate the rates of well-child visits and immunization administration for children ≤14 months of age, and used a quasi-Poisson regression model to estimate the rate ratio (RR) of each outcome during the pandemic period (3/15/2020 through 3/15/2021) compared with the pre-pandemic period (3/15/2019 through 3/14/2020).
Background: Neighbourhood factors are associated with cardiovascular health in adults, but these relationships are under-explored in youth.
Objectives: To characterize the associations between neighbourhood factors and child and adolescent health among youth with obesity.
Methods: Data were drawn from patient health records at a pediatric weight management clinic (n = 2838) and the Child Opportunity Index (COI).