Youth Participatory Action Communication Research: A Model for Developing Youth-Driven Health Campaigns.

Youth offer valuable insight on health communication needs and solutions in their communities. We propose youth participatory action communication research (YPACR) as a model for health campaign development that engages youth perspectives in applying systematic theory-informed communication research to addressing youth-identified health priorities. YPACR informed a series of paid high school internship programs in West Philadelphia, in which youth interns identified mental health help-seeking communication as a need among peers.

Utilization of Pharmacist Responders as a Component of a Multidisciplinary Sepsis Bundle.

Background: Sepsis and septic shock remain a significant burden on the US health care system. A multidisciplinary response system (Coordinated Response to Sepsis, CaRTS) that included a pharmacist responder was implemented for patients with newly suspected sepsis.

Objective: To evaluate the time to appropriate antibiotic administration among patients with the CaRTS intervention compared with historical controls.

Interrater variability of a severity-of-illness score in critically ill adults.

Background: Critically ill patients often require sedation and analgesia. Scales have been developed to provide clinicians with sedation targets. Daily interruption of continuous infusions of sedatives and sedation protocols improve patients' outcomes.

Efficacy of 1.4 percent sodium citrate in maintaining arterial catheter patency in patients in a medical ICU.

Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of 1.4 percent sodium citrate with heparin, 4 U/ml, for maintaining radial artery catheter patency in patients in the medical ICU.

Patients And Methods: Patients in the medical ICU (n = 40) were randomized to either a 1.