Publications
revised
8/10/10

Papers

  1. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN): Rationale, Development, and First Steps. Acad Emerg Med 2003; 10: 661-668. (Also published in Pediatr Emerg Care 2003;19:185-193).
  2. Gorelick MH, Alpern ER, Singh T, Snowdon D, Holubkov R, Dean JM, Kuppermann N, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Availability of Pediatric Emergency Visit Data from Existing Data Sources. Acad Emerg Med 2005;12:1195-1200.
  3. Alpern ER, Stanley RM, Gorelick MH, Donaldson A, Knight S, Teach SJ, Singh T, Mahajan P, Goepp JG, Kuppermann N, Dean JM, Chamberlain JM for the PECARN. Epidemiology of a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Network: The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Core Data Project. Pediatr Emerg Care 2006;22:689-699.
  4. Zuspan, SJ. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. J Emerg Nurs 2006;32:299-303.
  5. Dayan P, Chamberlain J, Dean JM, Maio RF, Kuppermann N. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network: Progress and Update. Clin Pediatr Emerg Med 2006:7:128-135.
  6. Stanley RM, Teach SJ, Mann NC, Alpern ER, Gerardi MJ, Mahajan PV, Chamberlain JM and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Variation in Ancillary Testing Among Pediatric Asthmatics Seen in Emergency Departments. Acad Emerg Med 2007;14:532-538.
  7. Gorelick MH, Knight S, Alessandrini EA, Stanley RM, Chamberlain JM, Kuppermann N, Alpern ER, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Lack of agreement in pediatric emergency visit discharge diagnoses from clinical and administrative data sources. Acad Emerg Med 2007;14: 646-652.
  8. Chamberlain JM, Singh T, Baren JM, Maio RF. Food and Drug Administration public hearing on the conduct of emergency clinical research: testimony of Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Acad Emerg Med 2007 14: e41-e42 (see also www.aemj.org/cgi/reprint/14/4/e41)
  9. Corneli HM, Zorc JJ, Mahajan P, Shaw KN, Holubkov R, Reeves SD et al., for the Bronchiolitis Study Group of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Dexamethasone for Bronchiolitis. New Engl J Med 2007;357:331-339.
  10. Steven Zane Miller, MD,* Helena Rincón, MA, Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH, and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Revisiting the Emergency Medicine Services for Children Research Agenda: Priorities for Multicenter Research in Pediatric Emergency Care. Acad Emerg Med 2008; 15:377–383 ª
  11. Gorelick MH, Atabaki SM, Hoyle JD, Dayan PS, Holmes JF, Holubkov R, Monroe D, Callahan JM, Kuppermann N and PECARN. Interobserver agreement in assessment of clinical variables in children with blunt head trauma. Acad Emerg Med 2008; 15:812-818.
  12. Grupp-Phelan J, Mahajan PV, Foltin G, Jacobs E, Tunik M, Sonnett M, Miller S, Dayan PS for the PECARN.  Referral and resource utilization patterns for psychiatric related visits to pediatric emergency departments. Pediatr Emerg Care 2009;25:217-225
  13. Bhatt M, Kennedy RM, Osmond MH, Krauss B, McAllister JD, Ansermino JM, Evered LM, Roback MG. Consensus-based recommendations for standardizing terminology and reporting adverse events for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia in children. Consensus Panel on Sedation Research of Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Ann Emerg Med 2009;53:426-435.
  14. Holmes JF, Kuppermann N and PECARN. Guardian availability for children evaluated in the emergency department for blunt head trauma. Acad Emerg Med 2009;16:15-20.
  15. Meert KL, Donaldson A, Nadkarni V, Tieves KS, Schleien CL, Brilli RJ, Clark RSB, Shaffner DH, Levy F, Statler K, Dalton HJ, van der Jagt EW, Hackbarth R, Pretzlaff R, Hernan L, Dean JM, Moler FW, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.  Multicenter cohort study of in-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2009 May 15.
  16. Mahajan PV, Alpern ER, Grupp-Phelan J, Chamberlain JM, Dong L, Holubkov R, Jacobs E, Stanley RM, Tunik M, Sonnett M, Miller S, Foltin G, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.  Epidemiology of psychiatric related visits to emergency departments in a multi-center collaborative research pediatric network.  In Press.
  17. Moler FW,  Meert KL, Donaldson A, Nadkarni V, Brilli RJ, Dalton HJ, Clark RSB, Shaffner DH, Schleien CL, Statler K, Tieves KS, Hackbarth R, Pretzlaff R, van der Jagt EW, Levy F, Hernan L, Silverstein FS, Dean JM, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.  In-hospital versus out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest:  A multicenter cohort study. Crit Care Med 2009;37:2259-2267
  18. Shaw KN, Ruddy RM, Olsen CS, Lillis KA, Mahajan PV, Dean JM, Chamberlain JC for the PECARN.  Pediatric patient safety in emergency departments: emergency department characteristics and staff perceptions.  Pediatrics August 2009 Vol. 124 No. 2
  19. Chamberlain JM, Lillis K, Vance C, Brown K, Fawumi O, Nichols S, Davis C, Singh T, Baren JM.  Perceived challenges to obtaining informed consent for a time-sensitive emergency department study of pediatric status epilepticus: results of two focus groups.  Acad Emerg Med 2009;18:763-770.
  20. Kuppermann N, Holmes JF, Dayan PS, Hoyle JD, Atabaki SM, Holubkov R, Nadel FM, Monroe D, Stanley RM, Borgialli DA, Badawy MK, Schunk JE, Quayle KS, Mahajan P, Lichenstein R, Lillis KA, Tunik MG, Jacobs ES, Callahan JM, Gorelick MH, Glass TF, Lee LK, Bachman MC, Cooper A, Powell EC, Gerardi MJ, Melville KA, Muizelaar JP, Wisner DH, Zuspan SJ, Dean JM, Wooten-Gorges SL.  Identifying children at very low risk of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries after blunt head trauma. Lancet 2009:374 1160-70.
  21. Alessandrini EA, Alpern ER, Chamberlain JM, Shea JA, Gorelick MH.  A new diagnosis grouping system for child emergency department visits. Acad Emerg Med 2010;17:204-210.
  22. Stanley R, Lillis K, Zuspan SJ, Lichenstein R, Ruddy RM, Gerardi MJ, Dean JM, and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.  Development and implementation of a performance measure tool in an academic pediatric research network.  Controlled Clinical Trials 2010 [accepted for publication]
  23. Leonard JC, Kuppermann N, Olsen C, Cimpello L, Brown KM, Mahajan PV, Borgialli DA, Gettachew T, Hoyle JD, Kim E, Lillis KA, Nigrovic LE, Adelgais K, Anders J, Donoghue A, Leonard JR, Rebella G, Reeves SD, Rogers AJ, Stankovic C, Jaffe DM, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.  Factors associated with cervical spine injury in children following blunt trauma.  Ann Emerg Med 2010 [accepted for publication]

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Abstracts

  1. Chamberlain J, Stanley R, Teach S, Gorelick MH, Dean JM, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Practice pattern variation in ancillary diagnostic testing for acute asthma exacerbations in emergency departments. Pediatr Res 2004;55:114A. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2004, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Orlando, FL, May 2004.)
  2. Gorelick MH, Alpern ER, Singh T, Snowdon D, Holubkov R, Dean JM, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Availability of pediatric emergency visit data from existing data sources. Pediatr Res 2004;55:120A. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2004, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Orlando, FL, May 2004.)
  3. Alpern ER, Chamberlain J, Dean JM, Gorelick MH, Goepp J, Singh T, Stanley R, Teach S, Donaldson A, Knight S, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network The PECARN Core Data Project: epidemiology of a pediatric emergency medicine research network. Pediatr Res 2004;55:119A. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2004, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Orlando, FL, May 2004.)
  4. Dean JM, Chamberlain J, Gorelick MH, Stanley R, Snowdon D, Mahajan P, Alpern ER, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. The PECARN Core Data Project: benchmarking hospitals in a pediatric emergency medicine research network. Pediatr Res 2004;55:119A. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.)
  5. Stanley R, Chamberlain J, Gregor MA, Mahajan P, Mann NC, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Factors associated with practice pattern variations in the use of analgesia for long bone fractures. Pediatr Res 2004;55:117A. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.)
  6. Goepp J, Joseph J, Alpern ER, Teach S, Knight S, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Racial disparities in pediatric emergency care: a preliminary analysis. Pediatr Res 2004;55:22A. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.)
  7. Chamberlain JM, Alpern ER, Teach SJ, Schnyder ME, Mahajan PV, Singh T, PECARN. Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) To Locate High Risk Areas for Injury Prevention. PAS 2005: 57: 1672 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, DC, May 2005)
  8. Stanley RM, Alpern ER, Gerardi MJ, Mahajan P, Teach SJ, Chamberlain JM, PECARN. Resource Utilization of Common Pediatric Emergency Medicine Visits. PAS 2005: 57: 2865 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, DC, May 2005)
  9. Alpern ER, Donaldson AE, Alessandrini EA, Gorelick MH, Stanley RM, Teach SJ, Chamberlain JM, PECARN. Epidemiology of Pediatric Emergency Department Recurrent Visits. PAS 2005: 57: 1862 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, DC, May 2005, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New York, NY, May 2005)
  10. Gorelick MH, Holubkov R, Alessandrini EA, Stanley RM, Chamberlain JM, Alpern ER, PECARN. Lack of agreement in pediatric emergency visit discharge diagnoses from administrative and clinical data sources. PAS 2005: 57: 2343 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, DC, May 2005)
  11. Tsung JW, Alpern ER, Chamberlain JM, Knight S, Mahajan P, Stanley RM, Tunik MG, PECARN. The Epidemiology of Children Without Health Insurance Seeking Emergency Care in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. PAS 2005: 57: 2866 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, DC, May 2005)
  12. Mahajan P, Alpern ER, Chamberlain J, Grupp-Phelan J, Holubokov R, Jacobs E, Rincon H, Stanley R, Tunik M, Foltin G, PECARN. Descriptive Analysis of Psychiatric Related Illnesses Across a Multi-Center Collaborative Research Network (PECARN). PAS 2005: 57: 2863 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, DC, May 2005)
  13. Alessandrini EA, Alpern ER, Chamberlain JM, Gorelick MH. Creating a Diagnosis Grouping System for Child ED Visits. PAS 2005: 57: 2344 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, DC, May 2005)
  14. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). J Emerg Nurs 2006;32:127. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Emergency Nurses Association, Nashville, TN, September 2005)
  15. Alessandrini EA, O'Reilly A, Alpern ER, Chamberlain JM, Gorelick MH. Assessing the validity of the Diagnosis Grouping System. E-PAS 2006:59:5550.275 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, April 2006.)
  16. Alessandrini EA, O'Reilly A, Alpern ER, Chamberlain JM, Gorelick MH. Comparing the Diagnosis Grouping System to the Clinical Classification System. E-PAS 2006:59:5550.276 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, April 2006.)
  17. Knight S, Donaldson AE, Singh T, Mann NC, Stanley R, Enriquez FR, Alpern ER, Chamberlain J, Dean LM, Kuppermann N. Compiling Extant Electronic Data For A Multi-Center Network. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Clinical Trials, Orlando, May 2006.)
  18. Baren JM, Singh T, Davis C, Chamberlain J, on behalf of the BPCA PODS Network-Lorazepam SE Study Group and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Pre-Consent Does Not Increase Enrollment into a Time Sensitive Clinical Trial of Status Epilepticus in Children Compared to Standard Informed Consent. Acad Emerg Med 2006;13:S18-19. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, CA, May 2006.)
  19. Corneli HM, Mahajan P, Shaw KN, Zorc JJ, Kuppermann N, and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Oral dexamethasone in bronchiolitis: a multi-center randomized controlled trial. (Presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Convention and Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, October 2006.)
  20. Moler FW, for the PECARN. Planning Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Trial. (To be presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, February 2007.)
  21. Alessandrini EA, Alpern ER, Chamberlain JM, Gorelick MH. Developing a diagnosis-based severity classification system for use in emergency medical systems for children. E-PAS 2007:616710.5 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Toronto, Ontario, May 2007.)
  22. Gorelick MH, Atabaki S, Hoyle JD, Dayan PS, Holmes JF, Holubkov R, Monroe D, Callahan J, Kuppermann N and PECARN. Interobserver agreement in assessment of clinical variables in children with blunt head trauma. E-PAS2007:618412.4 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Toronto, Ontario, May 2007, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Chicago, IL, May 2007.)
  23. Kuppermann N, Holmes JF, Dayan PS, Hoyle JD, Atabaki S, Dean JM, Holubkov R, and PECARN. Blunt head trauma in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) E-PAS2007:615705.3 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Toronto, Ontario, May 2007, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Chicago, IL, May 2007.)
  24. Holubkov R, Knight S, Dean JM, Kuppermann N, Corneli H for the PECARN. Unscheduled interim analysis due to underenrollment in a “seasonal” pediatric study. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007.)
  25. Capparelli EV, van den Anker J, Brown K, Baren J, Mahajan P, Vance C, Lillis K, Stanley R, Davis D, Singh T, Blumer J, Chamberlain J, the Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit Network, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. Lorazepam pharmacokinetics in children with status epilepticus. E-PAS 2007:618750.2 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Toronto, Ontario, May 2007.)
  26. Grupp-Phelan J, Mahajan P, Jacobs E, Tunik M, Sonnett M, Dayan P, Miller S, Foltin G, and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Referral and utilization patterns for psychiatric related visits to the pediatric emergency department. E-PAS 2007:618412.18. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Toronto, Ontario, May 2007.)
  27. Zuspan SJ, Singh T, for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Practical approaches to quality assurance on a shoestring budget. (Presented at the Association for Clinical Research Professionals Global Conference and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington, April 2007.)
  28. Holmes JF, Kuppermann N and PECARN. Guardian Availability when Children are Evaluated in Emergency Department for Blunt Head Trauma. Ann Emerg Med 2007;50:S124. (Presented at ACEP Scientific Assembly, Seattle, Washington, October 2007). Ann Emerg Med 2007;50:S124. (Presented at ACEP Scientific Assembly, Seattle, Washington, October 2007).
  29. Dayan PS, Holmes JF, Atabaki SM, Hoyle J, Tunik M, Lichenstein RL, Holubkov R, Kuppermann N, for the PECARN TBI Study Group.  Association of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in children after blunt head trauma with degree of isolated headache or isolated vomiting. E-PAS2008:634655.3 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, May 2008.)
  30. Kuppermann N, Holmes JF, Dayan PS, Hoyle J, Atabaki SM, Monroe D, Bachmann M, Nadel F, Glass T, Mahajan PV, Cooper A, Stanely RM, Dong L, for the PECARN TBI Study Group.  Does isolated loss of consciousness (LOC) predict traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in children after blunt head trauma? E-PAS2008:635550.8 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, May 2008.)
  31. Holmes JF, Borgialli DA, Nadel F, Quayle K, Schamban N, Cooper A, Schunk J, Zuspan SJ, Atabaki SM, Hoyle J, Dayan PS, Kuppermann N, for the PECARN TBI Study Group.  Do children with normal cranial CT scans and GCS 15 after blunt head trauma require hospitalization for observation? E-PAS2008:634655.2 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, May 2008.)
  32. Leonard J, Kuppermann N, Olsen C, Babcock-Cimpello L, Mahajan PV, Brown KM, Jaffe D, for the PECARN C-Spine Study Group. Sensitivity of the NEXUS C-spine criteria within the PECARN C-spine injury (CSI) cohort. E-PAS2008:634655.1 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, May 2008.)
  33. Leonard J, Kuppermann N, Olsen C, Babcock-Cimpello L, Mahajan PV, Brown KM, Jaffe D, for the PECARN C-Spine Study Group. Cervical spine injuries (CSI) in children in a multicenter network.  E-PAS2008:634655.4 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, May 2008.)
  34. Stanley RM, Hoyle J, Dayan PS, Atabaki SM, Lee L, Lillis KA, Gorelick MH, Holubkov R, Holmes JF, Kuppermann N, for the PECARN TBI Study Group.  Practice pattern variation in head CT use in children with minor blunt head trauma evaluated in the emergency department (ED): Is there an association with physician training? E-PAS2008:634845.5 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, May 2008.)
  35. Shaw KN, Ruddy RM, Edwards A, Olsen C, Chamberlain JM.  Staff perceptions of safety in pediatric emergency departments. E-PAS2008:634469.30 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008.)
  36. Shaw KN, Ruddy RM, Edwards A, Olsen C, Chamberlain JM.  Benchmarking patient safety characteristics in pediatric emergency departments. E-PAS2008:633786.13 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008.)
  37. Chamberlain JM, Ruddy RM, Zuspan SJ, Shaw KN.  Incident reports and medical errors in pediatric emergency departments. E-PAS2008:633786.19 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008.)
  38. Hoyle J, Callahan J, Badawy M, Powell E,  Jacobs E, Gerardi M, Melville K, Dean JM, Atabaki S, Holmes J, Dayan P, Kuppermann N for the PECARN TBI Group.  Sedation for cranial CT in children with minor blunt head trauma. E-PAS2008:634655.7 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC, May 2008.)
  39. Corneli HM, Zorc JJ, Holubkov R, Kuppermann N.  The admission decision in bronchiolitis.  E-PAS2008:635115.3 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu, HI, May 2008.)
  40. Lee L, Dayan PS, Gerardi M, Borgialli D, Badawy M, Callahan JM, Lillis K, Stanley RM, Gorelick MH, Holubkov R, Zuspan SJ, Holmes JF, Kuppermann N for the TBI Study Group of PECARN.  Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) after trauma in children with bleeding disorders. (To be presented at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition, Boston, MA, October 2008.)
  41. Dayan PS, Holmes JF, Schutzman S, Schunk J, Lichenstein R, Foerster LA, Hoyle JD, Atabaki SM, Dong L, Holubkov R, Wisner D, Kuppermann N for the TBI Study Group of PECARN. Association of traumatic bain injuries with scalp hematoma characteristics in patients younger than 24 months who sustain blunt head trauma. (To be presented at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition, Boston, MA, October 2008.)
  42. Lillis KA, Atabaki SM, Dayan PS, Hoyle JD, Tunik MG, Jacobs E, Monroe DJ, Wooton-Gorges SL, Dean JM, Holubkov R, Holmes JF, Kuppermann N for the TBI Study Group of PECARN.  The prevalence of traumatic brain injury after blunt head trauma in children with ventricular shunts.  (To be presented at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition, Boston, MA, October 2008.)
  43. Lillis K, Leonard J, Brown K, Singh T, Mann NC, Cimpello L, Tunik M, Dayan PS, Foltin G, and PECARN. EMS survey among hospitals within PECARN.  (Presented at the NAEMSP Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL, January 2009.)
  44. Lichenstein R, Glass TF, Quayle KS, Gorges SL, Wisner DH, Lu T, Muizelaar JP, Badawy MK, Atabaki SM, Holmes JF, Kuppermann N. Presentations and outcomes of children with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) on CT scans after blunt head trauma (BHT).  E-PAS2009:4331.118 ; Acad Emerg Med 2009;16:S102. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2009, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New Orleans, LA, May 2009.)
  45. Alessandrini EA, Alpern ER, Varadarajan K, Chamberlain JM, Ruddy RM, Shaw KN, Gorelick MH.  Developing quality performance measures for pediatric emergency care (PEC). E-PAS2009:2725.1 (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2009.)
  46. Leonard J, Kuppermann N, Olsen C, Brown K, Cimpello L, Mahajan P, Jaffe D.  Age-related differences in risk factors associated with cervical spine injury (CSI) in children.  E- E-PAS2009:2360.6; Acad Emerg Med 2009;16:S94. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2009, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New Orleans, LA, May 2009)
  47. Olsen C, Jaffe D, Kuppermann N, Holubkov R, Brown K, Cimpello L, Mahajan P, Leonard J.  Inter-observer agreement for clinical findings in children at risk of cervical spine injury.  E-PAS2009:4331.140; Acad Emerg Med 2009;16:S104. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2008, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New Orleans, LA, May 2009.)
  48. Leonard J, Kuppermann N, Olsen C, Brown K, Cimpello L, Mahajan P, Jaffe D.  Predicting C-spine injury (CSI) in children: a case-control analysis. PAS2009:2130.1; Acad Emerg Med 2009;16:S78.  (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2009, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New Orleans, LA, May 2009.)
  49. Borgialli D, Mahajan P, Hoyle J, Powell E, Nadel F, Tunik M, Foerster A, Dong L, Holmes J, Kuppermann N.  Performance of the pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score in the evaluation of children with blunt head trauma (BHT). E-PAS2009:2130.3; Acad Emerg Med 2009;16:S79. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2009, and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New Orleans, LA, May 2009.)
  50. Dayan PS, Lillis KA, Bennett J, Conners G, Macias C, Callahan J, Akmen C, Feldstein N, Kuppermann N, Hauser WA, the PEDNET Node of the PECARN. Likelihood of emergent and non-emergent intracranial abnormalities in children who present to the emergency department (ED) for the first time after seemingly unprovoked seizures. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2009.)
  51. Nigrovic LE, Rogers AJ, Adelgais K, Olsen C, Leonard J, Jaffe D, Leonard J, and the C-Spine Study Group of the PECARN. Utility of plain radiographs in detecting traumatic injuries of the cervical spine in children. Pediatr Emerg Care 2009; 25: 706. (Presented at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition, Washington, DC, October 2009.)
  52. Kim EG, Leonard J, Jaffe DM, Olsen CS, Kuppermann N and the C-Spine Study Group of the PECARN.  Method of spinal immobilization in children <2 years old at risk for cervical spine injury. Pediatr Emerg Care 2009; 25: 710-11.  (Presented at the AAP National Conference and Exhibition, Washington, DC, October 2009.)
  53. Tunik M, Mahajan P, Powell E, Schunk J, Jacobs E, Miskin M, Wootton-Gorges S, Atabaki S, Hoyle J, Dayan P, Homes J, Kuppermann N, and the TBI Working Group for the PECARN. Clinical presentations and outcomes of children with basilar skull fractures after blunt head trauma.  (To be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, BC, May 2010.)
  54. Atabaki S, Hoyle J, Schunk J, Monroe D, Alpern E, Quayle K, Glass T, Badawy M, Dong L, Dayan P, Holmes J, Kuppermann N, and the TBI Working Group for the PECARN. Clinician assessment versus a prediction rule for identifying children with clinically-important traumatic brain injuries after blunt head trauma.  (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, BC, May 2010.)
  55. Badawy M, Tunik M, Dayan P, Nadel F, Lillis K, Miskin M, Borgialli D, Bachman M, Atabaki S, Hoyle J, Holmes J, Kuppermann N, and the TBI Working Group for the PECARN. Post traumatic seizure (PTS) after blunt head trauma.  (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, BC, May 2010.)
  56. Nigrovic L, Schunk J, Forester A, Cooper A, Miskin M, Atabaki S, Hoyle J, Dayan P, Holmes J, Kuppermann N, and the TBI Working Group for the PECARN. Clinical observation before the decision to obtain a computed tomography (CT) for children with blunt head trauma.  (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, BC, May 2010.)
  57. Kuppermann N, Lillis K, Monroe D, Borgialli D, Kerrey B, Sokolove P, Yen K, Ellison A, Cook L, Holmes J, and the Intra-Abdominal Injury Study Group for the PECARN. Interobserver agreement in clinical assessment of children with blunt abdominal trauma. (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, BC, May 2010.)
  58. Timm N, McAneney C, Alpern E, Macy M, Ruddy R, for the PECARN. Is pediatric emergency department utilization by pregnant teens on the rise? (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, BC, May 2010.)
  59. Shaw KN, Lillis KA, Ruddy RM, Mahajan PV, Lichenstein R, Olsen CS, Chamberlain JM, for the PECARN. Pediatric medication errors reported in a pediatric emergency research network.  (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, BC, May 2010.)
  60. Babcock-Cimpello L, Borgialli D, Olsen C, Jaffe D, Leonard J and the CSI Working group for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.  Cervical Spine Injuries (CSI) in Children Sustained during Sports and Recreational Activities (SRA).  (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Vancouver, BC, May 2010.)

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