Intra-NICU Patient Transfers: A Study of Frequency and Family and Staff Perceptions.

Aims: (a) Quantify frequency of patient moves within a NICU with single patient and semi-private rooms (SPR). (b) Compare staff and parent perceptions of these moves.

Methods: A hospital administrative database was evaluated to quantify the frequency of moves.

Longitudinal understanding of prognosis among adolescents with cancer.

Objective: Despite calls to increase prognosis communication for adolescents with cancer, limited research has examined their perceptions of prognosis as compared with their parents. We assessed adolescents' understanding of their prognosis relative to parents and oncologists.

Methods: Families of adolescents (aged 10-17) were recruited at two pediatric institutions following a new diagnosis or relapse.

Concerns of Parents With Children Receiving Home-Based Pediatric Palliative Care.

Context: Caring for a child who will die from a life-limiting illness is one of the most difficult experiences a parent may face. Pediatric palliative care (PPC) has grown as a specialty service to address the unique needs of children and families with serious illness. However, gaps remain between the needs of families in PPC and the support received.

Failure to Rescue in Humanitarian Congenital Cardiac Surgery.

Background: Cardiac surgeons have a significant history of participating in humanitarian work; however, the outcomes in this arena are not well delineated. We sought to define and describe failure to rescue (FTR) in this setting by analyzing the outcomes of the International Children's Heart Foundation.

Methods: From 2008 to 2017, 3009 patients underwent operations during the course of an International Children's Heart Foundation mission.

Seizure Action Plans for Pediatric Patients With Epilepsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objectives: Seizure action plans help patients and caregivers better self-manage their epilepsy. We hypothesized that providing pediatric patients and their caregivers with a seizure action plan would reduce unplanned health care utilization and decrease the impact of epilepsy.

Methods: We developed a seizure action plan for use in pediatric epilepsy patients.

Tricuspid valve endocarditis in the era of the opioid epidemic.

Background And Aim: We reviewed our institutional experience with tricuspid valve endocarditis to understand the impact of the opioid epidemic on the incidence of right heart endocarditis.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all cases of tricuspid endocarditis managed surgically from January of 2011 to May of 2017. There were no exclusion criteria.

Factors Related to Parent Attendance at a Follow-Up Meeting With an Intensivist After a Child's Death in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Parents who experience the death of a child are at high risk for psychopathology. Because a large percentage of pediatric deaths occur in the pediatric intensive care unit each year, a follow-up meeting between bereaved parents and intensivists could provide essential emotional support, although some parents may not attend. The aim of this study was to explore demographic and medical factors that may distinguish between bereaved parents who attend a follow-up meeting with their child's pediatric intensivist and those who do not.

Blended Learning Educational Format for Third-Year Pediatrics Clinical Rotation.

Context: Traditional medical education is shifting to incorporate learning technologies and online educational activities with traditional face-to-face clinical instruction to engage students, especially at remote clinical training sites.

Objective: To describe and evaluate the effectiveness of the blended learning format (combining online and face-to-face instruction) for third-year osteopathic medical students during their pediatric rotation.

Methods: Third-year medical students who completed the 4-week clerkship in pediatrics during the 2014-2015 academic year were divided into a standard learning group and a blended learning group with online activities (discussion boards, blogs, virtual patient encounters, narrated video presentations, and online training modules).

Body issues, sexual satisfaction, and relationship status satisfaction in long-term childhood cancer survivors and healthy controls.

Objective: Research on body image and sexual satisfaction after adult onset cancer has shown significant and lasting impairments regarding survivors' sexuality and romantic relationships. However, knowledge about these topics and their associations in adult survivors of childhood cancer is largely lacking.

Methods: Participants completed web-based questionnaires concerning body image, body dissociation, sexual satisfaction, and relationship status satisfaction (i.