Improving WeeFIM score completion rates: An interdisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation unit quality improvement project.

Purpose: The WeeFIM is a tool commonly used in pediatric rehabilitation settings to measure objective patient progress while receiving comprehensive therapy services on inpatient rehabilitation units. This Quality Improvement (QI) project aimed for 95% of inpatients to have complete, on-time documented and displayed WeeFIM scores upon admission and discharge by 12/2017.

Methods: An interdisciplinary team examined historic WeeFIM completion rates.

Outcome Monitoring and Clinical Decision Support in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.

Objective: Inconsistent assessment and treatment may impair juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) outcomes. We aimed to improve polyarticular JIA (rheumatoid factor-positive and -negative) outcomes by standardizing point-of-care disease activity monitoring and implementing clinical decision support (CDS) to reduce treatment variation.

Methods: We performed a quality improvement initiative in an outpatient pediatric rheumatology practice.

Reducing Unnecessary Postoperative Complete Blood Count Testing in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Context: Complete blood count (CBC) testing commonly occurs to determine the need for blood transfusions after surgical procedures. Many clinicians believe postoperative CBCs are "routine."

Objective: To decrease unnecessary routine CBC testing in a low-risk cohort of postoperative patients in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia by 50% in 6 months.

Pediatric perioperative adverse events requiring rapid response: a retrospective case-control study.

Background: Perioperative pediatric adverse events have been challenging to study within and across institutions due to varying definitions, low event rates, and incomplete capture.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine perioperative adverse event prevalence and to evaluate associated case characteristics and potential contributing factors at an academic pediatric quaternary-care center.

Methods: At the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), perioperative adverse events requiring rapid response assistance are termed Anesthesia Now (AN!) events.

[Curriculum for "Rheumatology health professionals DGRh-BDRh" as a way of qualification for clinical nursing specialists : Concept and results of an evaluation].

Rheumatological care in Germany is influenced by limited resources and education and qualification of health professionals is a way to optimize utilization of these resources.The curriculum for rheumatology health professionals of the Academy of the German Association of Rheumatologists (DGRh) was developed to qualify clinical nursing specialists of rheumatology clinics as well as specialized rheumatology hospitals on a systematic basis.Since 2006 499 participants have each been trained over 4 weekends and certification was achieved by examinations.

[Comparative electromyographic studies of calves, sheep and goats].

Electromyography was used on calves, sheep, and goats to study limit values and behaviours of the action potentials of motoric units of M. Flexor digitorum superficialis. Average potentials were 10.