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The effect of race and ethnicity on outcomes among patients in the intensive care unit: A comprehensive study involving ...

Sara Erickson Eduard Vasilevskis Michael Kuzniewicz Brian Cason Rondall Lane Mitzi Dean Deborah Rennie Adams Dudley

Published in Critical Care Medicine

We sought to determine whether race or ethnicity is independently associated with mortality or intensive care unit length of stay among critically ill patients after accounting for patients' clinical and demographic characteristics including socioeconomic status and resuscitation preferences. Historical cohort study of patients hospitalized in inte...

Neonatal Neurocritical Care Service Is Associated With Decreased Administration of Seizure Medication

Sharon Wietstock, Sonia Bonifacio Charles McCulloch, Michael Kuzniewicz Hannah Glass

Published in Journal of Child Neurology

This cohort study examines medication use in term neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and seizures before and after implementation of a Neonatal Neurocritical Care Service (N = 108), which included increased seizure monitoring. Nearly all neonates received phenobarbital (96% pre- vs 95% post-Neonatal Neurocritical Care Service) and total ...

Effect of Neonatal Jaundice and Phototherapy on the Frequency of First-Year Outpatient Visits

Danielle Usatin Petra Liljestrand Michael Kuzniewicz Gabriel J Escobar Thomas B Newman

Published in PEDIATRICS

The objective of this study was to determine whether either hyperbilirubinemia or inpatient phototherapy is associated with increased subsequent outpatient visit rates, a possible effect of the "vulnerable child syndrome." We compared 3 groups of otherwise well term and late-preterm infants who were born between 1995 and 2004 in Northern California...

Risk Factors for Severe Hyperbilirubinemia among Infants with Borderline Bilirubin Levels: A Nested Case-Control Study

Michael Kuzniewicz Gabriel J Escobar Soora Wi Petra Liljestrand Charles McCulloch Thomas B Newman

Published in The Journal of Pediatrics

To estimate the effect of phototherapy and other predictors on the risk of total serum bilirubin (TSB) >or= 25 mg/dL in infants with a TSB of 17 to 22.9 mg/dL at age >or= 48 hours. From a cohort of 285295 infants >or= 34 weeks gestation and >or= 2000 g born between 1995 and 2004 in northern California Kaiser hospitals, we identified 17986 with a TS...

Lower Incidence of Seizure Among Neonates Treated With Therapeutic Hypothermia

Sharon Orbach Sonia Bonifacio Michael Kuzniewicz Hannah Glass

Published in Journal of Child Neurology

TONE OF POSTCARDS IN INCREASING SURVEY RESPONSE RATES 1

James H Price Faith Yingling Eileen Walsh Judy Murnan Joseph A Dake

Published in Psychological Reports

This study assessed differences in response rates to a series of three-wave mail surveys when amiable or insistently worded postcards were the third wave of the mailing. Three studies were conducted; one with a sample of 600 health commissioners, one with a sample of 680 vascular nurses, and one with 600 elementary school secretaries. The combined ...

Early Weight Loss Nomograms for Exclusively Breastfed Newborns

Valerie Flaherman Eric Schaefer Michael Kuzniewicz Sherian Li Eileen Walsh Ian Paul

Published in PEDIATRICS

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