Publications by authors named "Stephanie Parver"

Palliative care is a growing specialty that addresses the needs of individuals diagnosed with advanced illness and their caregivers. Although palliative care has been shown to improve a variety of patient- and caregiver-centered outcomes, access to comprehensive palliative care services for patients is often limited. There is a need to identify the most effective approaches to delivering palliative care to patients in community settings.

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Objective: To improve oral rehydration therapy (ORT) after discharge for children presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute gastroenteritis (AGE).

Methods: We designed and implemented a quality improvement initiative to improve caregiver adherence to ORT in children 6 months to 21 years old with AGE. The intervention consisted of ORT "kits" with rehydration supplies and caregiver instructions.

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Background And Objective: Although children with isolated skull fractures rarely require acute interventions, most are hospitalized. Our aim was to safely decrease the hospitalization rate for children with isolated skull fractures.

Methods: We designed and executed this multifaceted quality improvement (QI) initiative between January 2008 and July 2015 to reduce hospitalization rates for children ≤21 years old with isolated skull fractures at a single tertiary care pediatric institution.

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