Patient- and Family-centered Rounding: A Single-site Look into the Room.

Introduction: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends Patient- and Family-centered Rounds (PFCRs) to improve communication between the healthcare team and families while allowing the latter to participate in medical decision-making. PFCRs have a secondary goal of increasing rounds' efficiency and providing a positive learning environment for residents and students. There are many published best practices for PFCR.

Evaluating the effect of hospital setting on outcomes for neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the impact of hospital setting on outcomes for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Study Design: We conducted a retrospective study in two hospitals and three different hospital units. The inpatient group (n = 60) was managed on general inpatient floors, the NICU group (n = 50) was managed primarily in an NICU, and the combination group (n = 49) was managed in both NICU and inpatient units.

Firearms Screening in the Pediatric Inpatient Setting.

Objectives: Firearm-related deaths remain a top cause of mortality in American children and adolescents. In a 2012 policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics urged pediatricians to incorporate questions about the availability of firearms into their patient history taking. We aim to evaluate the frequency of screening for home firearms in an academic tertiary-care hospital inpatient setting.

Pediatric Chief Residents' Experiences as Inpatient Attending Physicians.

Background: Some pediatric chief residents perform supervisory clinical duties during chief residency, but these activities are highly variable and descriptions are limited. Our goals were to characterize inpatient service performed by pediatric chief residents and to explore factors that influence their experiences as inpatient attending physicians.

Methods: Pediatric chief residents at Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited programs in 2016 were invited to complete a 40-item electronic questionnaire about their inpatient service obligation as well as attitudes regarding this experience.

Adherence to AAP Healthy Newborn Discharge Criteria in a Tertiary Care Children's Hospital.

Objectives: In 2015, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published an updated consensus statement containing 17 discharge recommendations for healthy term newborn infants. In this study, we identify whether the AAP criteria were met before discharge at a tertiary care academic children's hospital.

Methods: A stratified random sample of charts from newborns who were discharged between June 1, 2015, and May 31, 2016, was reviewed.

A Novel Approach to Assessing Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

Objectives: Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a growing problem and poses a significant burden on the health care system. The traditional Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring System (FNASS) assessment approach may lead to unnecessary opioid treatment of infants with NAS. We developed a novel assessment approach and describe its effect on the management of infants with NAS.

An Initiative to Improve the Quality of Care of Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

Background And Objectives: The incidence of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a constellation of neurologic, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal disturbances associated with opioid withdrawal, has increased dramatically and is associated with long hospital stays. At our institution, the average length of stay (ALOS) for infants exposed to methadone in utero was 22.4 days before the start of our project.