Publications by authors named "K Philips"
Background: The Pediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) is a clinical tool used to identify children at risk for clinical deterioration, but its utility remains debated, particularly in high-resource settings. Our objective with this study was to assess the predictive performance of the PEWS for unplanned PICU transfers after pediatric rapid response team (RRT) activation.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study at a tertiary care academic children's hospital included all hospitalized patients up to 21 years old who had RRT activations between August 2021 and July 2022.
Background And Objectives: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends screening for unmet social needs, and the literature on inpatient screening implementation is growing. Our aim was to use quality improvement methods to implement standardized social needs screening in hospitalized pediatric patients.
Methods: We implemented inpatient social needs screening using the Model for Improvement.
Objectives: Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) restrict prescribing practices to regulate antimicrobial use, increasing the risk of prescribing errors. This quality improvement project aimed to decrease the proportion of prescribing errors in ASP-restricted medications by standardizing workflow.
Methods: The study took place on all inpatient units at a tertiary care children's hospital between January 2020 and February 2022.