Identifying pediatric malnutrition using STRONGkids: A quality improvement initiative.

Pediatric malnutrition can impact a patient's length of hospital stay, rates of infection and complications, cognitive development, and overall quality of life. This article compares nutritional screening tools to determine their efficiency and reliability in identifying patients with increased malnutrition risk at the time of hospital admission.

Clinical Momentum as One Reason Dying Patients Are Underserved in Acute Care Settings.

"Clinical momentum" refers to the curious expansion of interventions applied to patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) without pause or design, leading to extensions of care that can violate patient wishes and distress clinicians. In this article, clinical momentum is placed in a wider context that includes ritual, reimbursement patterns, and actor network theory. These contextual features help motivate understanding of one way in which dying patients are underserved in intensive care settings.