Publications by authors named "Justine C Stassun"
Importance: Inadequate communication between caregivers and clinicians at hospital discharge contributes to medication dosing errors in children. Health literacy-informed communication strategies during medication counseling can reduce dosing errors but have not been tested in the pediatric hospital setting.
Objective: To test a health literacy-informed communication intervention to decrease liquid medication dosing errors compared with standard counseling in hospitalized children.
Objectives: To identify patterns of psychiatric comorbidity among children and adolescents with a serious self-harm event.
Methods: We studied children aged 5 to 18 years hospitalized with a neuropsychiatric event at 2 children's hospitals from April 2016 to March 2020. We used Bayesian profile regression to identify distinct clinical profiles of risk for self-harm events from 32 covariates: age, sex, and 30 mental health diagnostic groups.
Objectives: The objective of this study was to develop and validate an approach to accurately identify incident pediatric neuropsychiatric events (NPEs) requiring hospitalization by using administrative data.
Methods: We performed a cross-sectional, multicenter study of children 5 to 18 years of age hospitalized at two US children's hospitals with an NPE. We developed and evaluated 3 NPE identification algorithms: (1) primary or secondary NPE International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision diagnosis alone, (2) NPE diagnosis, the NPE was present on admission, and the primary diagnosis was not malignancy- or surgery-related, and (3) identical to algorithm 2 but without requiring the NPE be present on admission.
Article Synopsis
- A study investigated how often children are prescribed medications in U.S. hospitals that could interact negatively with each other.
- Researchers analyzed data from over 47,000 hospitalizations across 52 children's hospitals from 2016 to 2018, finding that 2.0% of these cases involved potentially serious drug interactions.
- The risk of prescribing such medications differed greatly among hospitals and was linked to factors like patient age and the complexity of their health conditions, highlighting a need for further research on safety measures in medication use.