Emergency Medicine News

Low-value care encounters are more likely to occur in neighborhoods with a high Childhood Opportunity Index, but the overall volume of low-value care encounters is highest among areas with a low index, according to a study.

Presence of a fever and time since symptom onset were two factors that affected whether providers prescribed oseltamivir to infants with influenza, according to findings published in Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Roughly half of child abuse cases involve injuries to the mouth, head or neck, but oral injuries may be missed by physicians who do not know what to look for, according to a report published in Pediatrics.

Black and Hispanic/Latino infants who were brought to hospitals with a fever were less likely to have documented shared decision-making regarding lumbar puncture and ED discharge, a study found.

Following a surgical lung biopsy, pediatric patients faced greater odds for death within 30 days of their procedure if it was open vs. a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and if it was nonelective vs. elective, according to a study.

Health care-associated violence in pediatrics often goes unreported and mostly involves people other than the patient, according to findings from two studies published in Pediatrics.

In assessing neighborhood-level socioeconomic position indicators, researchers found a link between pediatric ICU admission rates and housing quality, household income and education, according to results published in CHEST.

A recently published case report summarized the successful initiation of buprenorphine treatment in two adolescents who presented to a pediatric ED with opioid withdrawal.

Installation of a stethoscope disinfection device improved hand hygiene compliance among health care workers at an urgent care clinic and ED, researchers reported.