Publications by authors named "Maddie Chrisman"
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- The study aimed to create a fair method for distributing a limited supply of COVID-19 preventive medication, tixagevimab with cilgavimab, specifically targeting immunocompromised individuals.
- A weighted lottery system was implemented, giving higher chances of receiving the medication to people living in highly disadvantaged neighborhoods, based on the US Area Deprivation Index, across a network of hospitals in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland.
- Results showed that the weighted lottery significantly increased allocations to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds and Black individuals compared to a simulated unweighted lottery, promoting a more equitable distribution of the medication.
There is increasing effort in both the inpatient and outpatient setting to improve care, function, and quality of life for children with congenital heart disease, and to decrease complications. As the mortality rates of surgical procedures for congenital heart disease decrease, improvement in perioperative morbidity and quality of life have become key metrics of quality of care. Quality of life and function in patients with congenital heart disease can be affected by multiple factors: the underlying heart condition, cardiac surgery, complications, and medical treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: COVID-19 contagious health care personnel (HCP) who are self-isolating for a 10-day period increases burden to workforce shortages. Implementation of a 5-day early return-to-work (RTW) program may reduce self-isolation periods, without increasing transmission risk, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design And Methods: This observational cohort quality improvement study included newly diagnosed COVID-19 HCP at a multifacility health care system.
Aims: To refine a cardiac rehabilitation pathway for pediatric heart transplant recipients; assess clinician knowledge and adherence to the program; and evaluate patient outcomes.
Methods: The center has utilized a rehabilitation pathway for pediatric heart transplant recipients. Challenges in practice include access to centers, lack of data tracing, and adherence to the pathway.
Background: Incidence of health care personnel (HCP) with a higher-risk SARS-CoV-2 exposure and subsequent 14-day quarantine period adds substantial burden on the workforce. Implementation of an early return-to-work (RTW) program may reduce quarantine periods for asymptomatic HCP and reduce workforce shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: This observational quality improvement study included asymptomatic HCP of a multi-facility health care system with higher-risk workplace or non-household community SARS-CoV-2 exposure ≤4 days.
Unlabelled: Critical illness results in physical impairments which may be mitigated by intensive care unit (ICU)-based early mobility. This initiative aimed to develop and implement ICU-based mobility guidelines for critically ill children.
Methods: A multidisciplinary team developed and implemented ICU-based mobility guidelines.
Objectives: Characterize current practices for PICU-based rehabilitation, and physician perceptions and attitudes, barriers, resources, and outcome assessment in contemporary PICU settings.
Design: International, self-administered, quantitative, cross-sectional survey.
Setting: Online survey distributed from March 2017 to April 2017.
Objective: s: Few feasibility, safety, and efficacy data exist regarding ICU-based rehabilitative services for children. We hypothesized that early protocolized assessment and therapy would be feasible and safe versus usual care in pediatric neurocritical care patients.
Design: Randomized controlled trial.