Patient Handoffs: Is Cross Cover or Night Shift Better?

Objectives: Studies show singular handoffs between health care providers to be risky. Few describe sequential handoffs or compare handoffs from different provider types. We investigated the transfer of information across 2 handoffs using a piloted survey instrument.

Multicenter clinical evaluation of the novel Alere™ i Influenza A&B isothermal nucleic acid amplification test.

Background: Rapid detection of influenza infection is important for patient management and timely anti-viral therapy. Rapid antigen detection tests for influenza have inferior sensitivity when compared to nucleic acid-based amplification tests. An isothermal nucleic acid amplification test that offers the potential for rapid molecular testing at the clinical point-of-care with simple equipment can improve influenza detection rates.

Fetal growth restriction and pulmonary hypertension in premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Objective: To identify the association between birth weight (BW)-for-gestational age (GA) and pulmonary hypertension (PHTN) at 36 weeks in infants with moderate-severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).

Study Design: In this retrospective cohort study, we followed 138 premature infants (≤ 28 weeks) with moderate and severe BPD (National Institutes of Health consensus definition) born at Prentice Women's Hospital between 2005 and 2009. BW percentiles were calculated using the Fenton growth curve for premature infants.