Paediatric injuries due to falls from windows and balconies: an 8-year prospective and retrospective review.

Background: Unintentional falls from windows and balconies pose a serious health risk to children. Limited Canadian data describing such falls currently exist. This study aimed to describe the frequency, demographic characteristics, injury patterns, and risk factors associated with paediatric falls from windows and balconies.

A randomized trial of iPad distraction to reduce children's pain and distress during intravenous cannulation in the paediatric emergency department.

Objectives: We compared the addition of iPad distraction to standard care, versus standard care alone, to manage the pain and distress of intravenous (IV) cannulation.

Methods: Eighty-five children aged 6 to 11 years requiring IV cannulation (without child life services present) were recruited for a randomized controlled trial from a paediatric emergency department. Primary outcomes were self-reported pain (Faces Pain Scale-Revised [FPS-R]) and distress (Observational Scale of Behavioral Distress-Revised [OSBD-R]), analyzed with two-sample t-tests, Mann-Whitney U-tests, and regression analysis.

A qualitative study of the language of satisfaction in children with pain.

Background: Measures of satisfaction are essential to understanding patient experience, in general, and particularly with pain management.

Objectives: (A) To identify the words children commonly use to communicate satisfaction, in general, and for pain management and (B) to determine if this vocabulary matches their caregivers.

Methods: A study of child-caregiver pairs seen at a paediatric emergency department (PED) from July to November 2014 was conducted.

A randomised controlled pilot trial evaluating feasibility and acceptability of a computer-based tool to identify and reduce harmful and hazardous drinking among adolescents with alcohol-related presentations in Canadian pediatric emergency departments.

Objective: This study piloted procedures and obtained data on intervention acceptability to determine the feasibility of a definitive randomised controlled trial (RCT) of the effectiveness of a computer-based brief intervention in the emergency department (ED).

Design: Two-arm, multi-site, pilot RCT.

Setting And Participants: Adolescents aged 12-17 years presenting to three Canadian pediatric EDs from July 2010 to January 2013 for an alcohol-related complaint.

Children's Mental Health Visits to the Emergency Department: Factors Affecting Wait Times and Length of Stay.

Objective. This study explores the association of patient and emergency department (ED) mental health visit characteristics with wait time and length of stay (LOS). Methods.