Publications by authors named "Josh Bricker"

Background: Social Deprivation Index (SDI) is a composite measurement of disadvantage in which higher SDI indicates worse social deprivation. Previous studies have suggested a relationship between pedestrian-vs-automobile (PVA) collisions and poverty among adults, but a similar association using state-level pediatric data has not previously been shown. We hypothesize that pediatric PVA collision incidence will differ with SDI and urbanicity across Ohio.

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To describe the frequency and types of hearing loss in children with syndromic and non-syndromic craniosynostosis. Retrospective cohort study. Large tertiary pediatric hospital.

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Introduction: Currently, few prospective guidelines exist for the surveillance of children with low-risk neuroblastic tumors (LRNBTs), including ganglioneuroma or ganglioneuroblastoma intermixed. This study aims to describe our institutional approach to LRNBT surveillance following surgical resection or nonoperative management. We hypothesize that length of surveillance can be reduced due to low recurrence risk.

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Background: Predictive scales have been used to prognosticate long-term outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI), but gaps remain in predicting mortality using initial trauma resuscitation data. We sought to evaluate the association of clinical variables collected during the initial resuscitation of intubated pediatric severe patients with TBI with in-hospital mortality.

Methods: Intubated pediatric trauma patients <18 years with severe TBI (Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score ≤8) from January 2011 to December 2020 were included.

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This study examined the nature, variability, and predictors of school readiness difficulties in young children with critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). We hypothesized that, compared to a community control (CC) group, children with CCHD would score less well on measures of readiness and that readiness would be associated with CCHD-related risk factors. Children (60 CCHD and 60 CC) were 4 to 5 years of age and not yet attending kindergarten.

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Objectives: Children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have a significant life-long burden as a result of disease, impacted by environmental and individual barriers. Successful health system interventions require a comprehensive approach, informed by various stakeholders. The main objective was to identify health system barriers and potential solutions from existing patients, families, and providers via focus groups.

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Background: Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is commonly treated with infliximab in a hospital setting. Utilization of home infusions (HI) is increasing due to insurance mandates, travel time savings, and convenience. We evaluated adverse outcomes (AOs) of infliximab infusions in children with IBD receiving HI compared to hospital-based infusions.

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Objectives: Studies describing longer-term outcomes after EEN induction are limited. We describe clinical outcomes during 90:10 EN induction, and 6- and 12- month outcomes among patients that successfully completed EN induction and then continued either EN or immunomodulator (IM) maintenance therapy.

Methods: All children with CD treated with 90:10 EN induction protocol (90% formula:10% regular diet) at our IBD Center from 2013 to 2018 were retrospectively reviewed.

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Introduction: Despite the high prevalence of pediatric obesity, its impact on Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) activity remains poorly characterized. The aim of this study was to evaluate disease-related outcomes in overweight and obese children with CD and UC.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the ImproveCareNow Network, a multicenter registry of children with inflammatory bowel disease.

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Objectives: Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) are at risk for disease exacerbations and increased health care utilization around the time of transition to adult care. Our aim was to identify risk factors predictive of a suboptimal transition for AYA with inflammatory bowel disease.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of patients with pediatric inflammatory bowel disease transferred to adult care from our institution in 2016 and 2017, recording demographic, psychosocial, and disease-specific data.

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The impact of obesity on pediatric Crohn disease (CD) remains poorly characterized. We aimed to evaluate disease-related outcomes in overweight and obese children with CD, compared to normal-weight children. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of children with newly diagnosed CD enrolled in the ImproveCareNow Network.

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Background: Racial and socioeconomic disparities exist in the treatment and outcomes of children and adults with Crohn's disease (CD). This study investigated the impact of race and insurance status on emergency department (ED) evaluation and treatment among children with CD in the United States.

Methods: Data from the Pediatric Health Information System included ED visits between January 2007 and December 2013 for patients aged ≤21 years with a primary diagnosis of CD, or a secondary diagnosis of CD plus a primary CD-related diagnosis.

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Objectives: Thiopurines are commonly used in the maintenance of remission for children with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). Variation in drug metabolism may affect hepatotoxicity or therapeutic effect. We aimed to describe our center's experience with thiopurine optimization through the use of reduced thiopurine dosing in combination with allopurinol upon hepatotoxicity, drug metabolite levels, and clinical outcomes in children with IBD.

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Background: Racially disparate care has been shown to contribute to suboptimal health care outcomes for minorities. Using the ImproveCareNow network, we investigated differences in management and outcomes of pediatric patients with Crohn's disease at diagnosis and 1-year postdiagnosis.

Methods: ImproveCareNow is a learning health network for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

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Background: Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) care is complex and rapidly evolving. The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition cosponsored a needs assessment survey of pediatric gastroenterology trainees and program directors (PDs) to inform on educational programming.

Methods: A Web-based, self-completed survey was provided to North American trainees and PDs during the 2013-2014 academic year.

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Background: Sex differences among adults in healthcare treatment and outcomes have been reported; however, there is a paucity of literature regarding pediatric populations, particularly adolescents with Crohn's disease (CD). The objective was to identify whether sex differences exist with respect to complications, procedures, and medication usage (corticosteroids, biological agents, and total parenteral nutrition) among hospitalized adolescents with CD.

Methods: Adolescents with CD (n = 5782) hospitalized between April 1, 2004, and June 30, 2012, were selected from the Pediatric Health Information System database with a 1:1 ratio of males to females by hospital.

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Research on the role of puberty in adolescent psychological development requires attention to the meaning and measurement of pubertal development. Particular questions concern the utility of self-report, the need for complex models to describe pubertal development, the psychological significance of pubertal timing vs. tempo, and sex differences in the nature and psychological significance of pubertal development.

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This paper describes the Colorado Adoption Project (CAP), a longitudinal study in behavioral development, and discusses how adoption studies may be used to assess genetic and environmental etiologies of individual differences for important developmental outcomes. Previous CAP research on adjustment outcomes in childhood and adolescence which found significant interactions, including gene-environment interactions, is reviewed. New research suggests mediating effects of menarche and religiosity on age at first sex in this predominantly middle-class, Caucasian sample.

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Adopted children show more problem behaviors than nonadopted children. Given that internationally-adopted individuals show earlier puberty than non-adopted individuals, and early puberty is associated with problem behaviors in nonadopted youth, we analyzed data from domestic adoptees to determine whether problem behaviors could be explained by differences in pubertal timing. Relative to nonadopted controls (n = 153), domestically-adopted girls (n = 121) had earlier menarche, earlier sexual initiation, and more conduct disorder symptoms.

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This paper describes the Colorado Adoption Project (CAP), an ongoing genetically informative longitudinal study of behavioral development. We describe the features of the adoption design used in CAP, and discuss how this type of design uses data from both parent-offspring and related- versus unrelated-sibling comparisons to estimate the importance of genetic and shared environmental influences for resemblance among family members. The paper provides an overview of CAP's history, how subjects were ascertained, recruited, and retained, and the domains of assessment that have been explored since the CAP's initiation in 1975.

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Background: While it has been demonstrated that smoking cigarettes in adolescence increases the likelihood of progressing to marijuana use, few studies have considered the reverse scenario in which early use of cannabis leads to greater tobacco smoking.

Methods: Participants (n=5963), who had never smoked cigarettes daily by wave I of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, were followed 6 years (waves I-III) from adolescence into young adulthood. Measures of marijuana use (lifetime use, monthly use, age at first use), as assessed at wave I within 12-16 (n=3712) and 17-21 (n=2251) year-olds, were separately modeled as predictors of three tobacco-related outcomes: (1) age at onset of daily cigarette smoking, (2) lifetime nicotine dependence, (3) current nicotine dependence.

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This study examined the acquisition and transfer of a fine motor skill, namely the rotary pursuit, in 99 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 100 normal controls (NCs). To identify optimal learning strategies, the authors had participants practice the rotary pursuit under constant, blocked, random, or no training conditions. Transfer was assessed using speeds that were different from those practiced during acquisition.

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