Publications by authors named "Jane Cerise"

Objectives: To evaluate a new triage workflow aimed at improving time to intravenous antibiotics in open fractures to under less than 60 minutes of arrival to the Pediatric Emergency Department.

Design: A prospective, multidisciplinary, quality improvement project.

Setting: A tertiary care, Level 1 pediatric trauma hospital in New York.

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Background: Immune regulation by gut microbiota is affected by dysbiosis and may precede food allergy onset. Prior studies lacked comparisons stratified by age and clinical phenotype.

Objective: To assess the microbiome of children with food allergy (<3 years, 3-18 years) compared with similar aged children without food allergy.

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Introduction: Despite increasing awareness of media exposure to children and adolescents and the known value of media education for physicians, residency programs lack formal media education.

Methods: We designed an interactive curriculum for pediatric residents to teach health effects of media as well as screening and counseling strategies. Instructional methods were based on constructivism, experiential learning, and situated learning theories.

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  • The study aimed to measure neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in maternal serum, cord blood, and breast milk after vaccination and infection to see how they relate to spike protein binding antibodies.
  • It involved 100 women who gave birth, assessing their antibody levels to determine the impact of previous infection and vaccination on maternal and infant immunity.
  • Results showed that maternal neutralizing antibody levels increased after both vaccination and infection, but decreased quickly; these antibodies were also found in higher concentrations in cord blood than in maternal blood, and spike protein binding antibodies closely related to neutralizing antibody levels.
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Mothers of preterm infants are at risk for inadequate milk production. Pumping logs are often used to both encourage lactation in the first week and track its efficacy. Our objectives were to determine whether mothers of preterm infants who keep pumping logs are demographically different from those who do not and to determine whether this practice affects the amount of mother's own milk (MOM) fed to their infants.

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Little is known on why adherence to follow-up care in childhood cancer survivors (CCS) is lacking. This study characterized barriers to adherence to follow-up care among CCS, identified sociodemographic correlates of barriers, and examined whether barriers to follow-up care relate to health-related quality of life. Adult CCS (N=84) were anonymously surveyed via REDCap using the Barriers to Care Questionnaire (BCQ) and the Quality of Life Scale-Cancer Survivor (QOL-CS).

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Background: Prenatal diagnosis of bicuspid aortic valve is challenging. Bicuspid aortic valve is often associated with aortic dilation.

Methods: Fetuses with postnatally confirmed bicuspid aortic valve were gestational age-matched with normal controls.

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Introduction: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is characterized by lung injury with varying degrees of disrupted alveolarization, vascular remodeling, inflammatory cell proliferation, and pulmonary edema. Diuretics are often used to ameliorate the symptoms or progression of BPD. Our primary objective was to use lung ultrasound (LUS) to determine if diuretics decrease pulmonary edema in infants with BPD.

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Objective: To evaluate racial and ethnic differences in mortality among patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) after adjusting for baseline characteristics and comorbidities.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study at 13 acute care facilities in the New York City metropolitan area included sequentially hospitalized patients between March 1, 2020, and April 27, 2020. Last day of follow up was July 31, 2020.

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Background: The timing, route, and amount of nutrition for surgical patients with substantial caloric deficits remain active areas of study. Current guidelines are based on in-hospital days NPO after admission to the hospital. This historic process neglects the multiple days of caloric deficit patients experience prior to hospital admission.

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Acute neurological complications from COVID-19 have been reported in both pediatric and adult populations. Chronic symptoms after recovery have been reported in adults and can include neuropsychiatric and sleep symptoms. Persistent symptoms in children with the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) have not been studied.

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Studies in adults support the use of a negative methicillin-resistant (MRSA) nares screening (MNS) to help limit empiric anti-MRSA antibiotic therapy. We aimed to evaluate the use of MNS for anti-MRSA antibiotic de-escalation in hospitalized children (<18 years). Records of patients admitted between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2020 with a presumed infectious diagnosis who were started on anti-MRSA antibiotics, had a PCR-based MNS, and a clinical culture performed were retrospectively reviewed.

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Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is the only disease-modifying therapy indicated for treatment of allergic asthma, rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and Hymenoptera hypersensitivity. Manufacturing of the extracts used in AIT involve multistep complex processes as well as regulatory oversight. Furthermore, some source materials are vulnerable to unexpected events of nature.

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Objectives: Immunosuppressed paediatric patients with rheumatic disease (RD) may be at risk for severe or critical disease related to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Data remain scarce on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outcomes in paediatric RD patients. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG and to describe COVID-19 outcomes in immunosuppressed paediatric RD patients.

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Unlabelled: Intravenous (IV) sildenafil may be administered as a continuous infusion or intermittent bolus dosing in infants with pulmonary hypertension (PH). We aimed to compare these delivery methods.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated subjects less than 12 months old treated with IV sildenafil for PH.

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Purpose: Describe the process of obtaining the best possible medication history (BPMH) by Certified Pharmacy Technicians (CPhTs) on hospital admission to identify medication discrepancies.

Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive study conducted between December 2016 and June 2017 at a quaternary center in New York, including all patients 18 years and older admitted to the medicine service through the Emergency Department (ED) and seen by a CPhT. CPhTs obtained the BPMH using a systematic approach involving a standardized interview, checking medications with secondary sources and updating the electronic health record (EHR).

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Background: Initially, persistent asthma was deemed a risk factor for severe COVID-19 disease. However, data suggests that asthmatics do not have an increased risk of COVID-19 infection or disease. There is a paucity of data describing pediatric asthmatics with COVID-19.

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Background: Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) introduces positive pressure of air into both the trachea and stomach, which may affect gastric emptying. The rate of gastric emptying can be estimated by ultrasound (US) in neonates by two validated techniques: "antral cross-sectional area" (ACSA, two-dimensional estimate of the surface area at the gastric antrum), and "spheroid gastric volume" (spheroid, three-dimensional estimate of the stomach volume).

Objective: To compare gastric emptying rates in neonates on machine-derived nasal CPAP (MD-nCPAP, Avea and RAM cannula) with those on bubble CPAP (bCPAP, Fisher Paykel and Babi.

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  • * The study involved over 10,600 adult patients and used logistic regression to analyze the impact of sex on various health outcomes during hospitalization from March to June 2020.
  • * Results indicated that female patients had a lower likelihood of experiencing serious complications, such as acute cardiac injury, acute kidney injury, and venous thromboembolism, suggesting possible protective factors related to female sex.
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Background: Thousands of patients annually receive treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but little is known about their views on the decision to receive that treatment, or regret. This trial prospectively evaluated the incidence of regret and whether baseline characteristics, patient decision-making parameters, or clinical progress early in the treatment course predicts regret.

Materials And Methods: Patients receiving systemic treatment for advanced NSCLC completed every 3-week patient reported outcome (PRO) assessment using the electronic Lung Cancer Symptom Scale (eLCSS-QL), including the 3-Item Global Index (3-IGI; assessing overall distress, activities, and quality of life [QL]).

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Objective: To evaluate the reliability, validity, feasibility and psychometric performance of the Lupus Impact Tracker (LIT) as a patient reported outcome (PRO) measure tool in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE).

Methods: This is a prospective, observational, pilot study where patients aged between 12 and 25 years, fulfilling the 1997 ACR classification criteria for SLE, were enrolled. Over 3 consecutive, routine, clinical visits, the patients completed the LIT alongside the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System-Short Forms (PROMIS-SFs), Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ).

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Newborn screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) caused by 21-hydroxylase deficiency is mandated throughout the US. Filter paper blood specimens are assayed for 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17OHP). Prematurity, low birth weight, or critical illness cause falsely elevated results.

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Background: Airway dysbiosis in premature infants may be associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Early oropharyngeal colostrum (OPC) administration alters the oral microbiome, which may impact the lung microbiome. We aim to compare the oral and tracheal microbiota during the first week of life, and to determine whether early OPC administration affects microbial diversity or leukocyte inflammatory activity in the lung.

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Objective: Different classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been proposed for many years. The most widely used and accepted criteria has been the 1997 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria. In 2012, the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) criteria were published in an attempt to improve the clinical relevance of SLE criteria.

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Alopecia areata (AA) is a highly prevalent autoimmune disease that attacks the hair follicle and leads to hair loss that can range from small patches to complete loss of scalp and body hair. Our previous linkage and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) generated strong evidence for aetiological contributions from inherited genetic variants at different population frequencies, including both rare mutations and common polymorphisms. Additionally, we conducted gene expression (GE) studies on scalp biopsies of 96 patients and controls to establish signatures of active disease.

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