Feasibility and Challenges with Measuring Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Purpose: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) screening tool captures some experiences of childhood adversity, ranging from abuse to parental separation. Research has shown a correlation between ACEs and both adult and childhood disease. This study evaluated the feasibility of conducting ACE screening in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and investigated associations with markers for severity of illness and utilization of resources.

"You Have Made All the Loving Choices": Good Parent Praise in Pediatric Critical Care Conferences.

Background And Objectives: Parents' ideas about what it means to be a "good parent" to their seriously ill child influence parental decision-making. Little is known about when, why, and how clinicians offer good-parent praise or how parents react. Our objective was to describe clinicians' spontaneous use of good-parent praise statements to parents during PICU care conferences and how parents respond.