Publications by authors named "Mia Casale"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the division of responsibilities between mothers and fathers for healthcare-related tasks involving their children, revealing significant gender differences in these roles.
- Data was collected from over 1,100 parents, showing that mothers are primarily responsible for scheduling appointments and taking children to healthcare visits, often more than twice as likely as fathers.
- The findings suggest that pediatricians can encourage greater involvement from fathers in these tasks, potentially helping to shift societal norms regarding healthcare responsibilities in families.
Purpose: We aimed to characterize parent attitudes toward gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth, from a general parent sample in a diverse urban setting.
Methods: We surveyed Chicago parents through the Voices of Child Health in Chicago Parent Panel Survey via web and phone in English and Spanish from May-July 2022. We used both probability-based and nonprobability-based sampling, with calibration weights for the nonprobability sample.
Importance: Readmission is often considered a hospital quality measure, yet no validated risk prediction models exist for children.
Objective: To develop and validate a tool identifying patients before hospital discharge who are at risk for subsequent readmission, applicable to all ages.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This population-based prognostic analysis used electronic health record-derived data from a freestanding children's hospital from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019.
Importance: Presenting with complicated appendicitis, which is associated with higher rates of complications and readmissions compared with simple appendicitis, may indicate delayed access to care. Although both patient-level and neighborhood-level social determinants of health are associated with access to care, little is known about the association between neighborhood factors and access to acute pediatric surgical care.
Objective: To examine the association between neighborhood factors and the odds of presenting with complicated appendicitis and unplanned postdischarge health care use.
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- Newborn screening aims to identify serious health conditions in newborns that can benefit from early intervention, though decisions on which conditions to include are complicated due to incomplete data.
- A decision tree analysis compared outcomes of screening for Pompe disease against clinical identification, revealing that screening could detect similar numbers of infantile cases and additionally identify cases of late-onset Pompe disease.
- The findings suggested that newborn screening could prevent up to 19 deaths and reduce reliance on mechanical ventilation, emphasizing the value of early detection for better health outcomes.
Plastic surgery research using large databases has increased dramatically over the past 20 years. With the magnitude and breadth of information available in these databases, researchers are able to more easily answer a wide variety of research questions. This study sought to provide a comprehensive comparative analysis of the relevant databases for plastic surgery research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Supply of essential n-3 PUFA is limited worldwide. While fish-oil supplementation effectively improves n-3 PUFA status, it may not be a sustainable intervention. The use of α-linolenic acid (ALA)-rich cooking oils in the household may be a suitable alternative but its effect on PUFA status is unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSulfate esters have recently been identified in the secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formed in the photooxidation of biogenic hydrocarbons both in laboratory and under ambient atmospheric conditions. In the present study, the kinetics feasibility of direct reactions between alcohols and sulfuric acid to form sulfate esters in aerosol particles is explored. Nuclear magnetic resonance methods were used to monitor the bulk reaction kinetics of sulfate esterification reactions for a number of simple alcohols.
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