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Showing 1 to 20 of 1169 for “"pediatric"”.
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Uses of Hypnosis in Pediatric Anesthesia and Pediatric Headaches: A Literature Review
… pain and anxiety is a significant challenge for pediatricians. Infants, children, and teenagers - especially those with severe needle phobia -- can experience significant degrees of stress and anxiety prior to and after surgery, and during vaccinations or venipunctures. Headaches and migraines - …
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3D Bioprinting Pediatric Trachea
… silicone grafts pose further challenges for pediatric patients, who require yearly follow up surgeries to adjust the implant to their growing bodies. To assuage these challenges, the work in this thesis seeks to develop biologically derived grafts with the potential to grow and respond to the …
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The Pediatric Breathing Survey
… assessments, the researcher designed a Pediatric Breathing Survey (PBS) to measure quality of life for African-American children. The purpose of this study was to test whether the PBS is a reliable and valid instrument. Comparisons of group differences on race, income and parent's level …
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Pediatric Obesity: Intervention Outcomes
… children with a multi-disciplinary approach to pediatric weight management. Evaluating the outcomes of the children who attend Growing Fit is vital due to the current controversies surrounding the dubious impact of interventions for obese children. This study found that while controlling for BMI …
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Localization of seizure foci in pediatric populations : development of a predictive pediatric model
… functioning by epilepsy type in pediatric populations. This study aimed to address a significant gap in the literature by performing a broad, multi-domain comparative analysis of neuropsychological functioning in the two most common localization-related symptomatic epilepsies: …
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Attrition in Pediatric Weight Management
Pediatric obesity continues to be one of the most important health issues facing children and families today, and there remains a need for effective treatment options. Recent expert recommendations outlined directions for treatment, with multidisciplinary teams and tertiary-care clinics providing …
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Pediatric uveítis : experience in colombia
… observational clinical record review of pediatric children with diagnosis of uveitis. Results: In total, 310 children were evaluated, 51.9% were female, mean age of 10.1 years. Posterior uveitis was the most common location (58.7%), of insidious onset (87.4%) and chronic course (78.1%). …
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Reducing pediatric pain during immunizations
… are often associated with pain and fear in the pediatric population. These negative emotions can have lasting effects on a patient's willingness to receive future medical care, including immunizations. Therefore, it is important to attempt to minimize the amount of pain and fear during all …
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Adapting An Evidence-Based Pediatric Acute Asthma Exacerbation Severity Assessment Tool For Pediatric Primary Care
… to examine criteria derived from evidence-based pediatric acute asthma exacerbation assessment tools, asthma scores, and the acute asthma prediction rule validated and utilized in the emergency department and to adapt these criteria for pediatric primary care.</p> <p>Method: Three stages of the …
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Development of a Method to Measure Clinical Reasoning in Pediatric Residents: The Pediatric Script Concordance Test
… ability between junior (JR) and senior (SR) pediatric residents and experienced pediatricians serving on the panel of experts (POE), 2) to determine if higher reliability of the SCT method could be achieved by applying specific strategies to the design and construction, and 3) to explore …
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Reading comprehension in pediatric focal epilepsy
Research shows that children with epilepsy experience cognitive deficits that are often correlated with seizure type and localization/lateralization of seizure focus. Additionally, research into academic achievement of children with epilepsy indicates that learning disabilities are the norm in this …
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Prospectus Elements: Increasing Pediatric Immunization Rates
<p>There has been a recent outbreak of Measles and the majority who contracted the disease were unvaccinated (CDC, 2015). An increase in pertussis cases from 2013 to 2014 have occurred as well from 28,639 cases to 32,971 in 2014 (CDC, 2015). This is endangering the community, and putting infants …
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Novel Oncogenic Drivers in Pediatric Gliomagenesis
<p>Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGGs), with a two-year survival rate of less than 20%, are some of the most aggressive human cancers. This dissertation begins with our analysis of 127 pHGGs, including brainstem (BS) and non-brainstem (NBS) tumors, from 118 patients using next-generation …
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Clinical Aspects of Pediatric Head Injury
… Specific and national management guidelines for pediatric head injuries are lacking in Sweden, and management routines are consequently based on adult guidelines or local guidelines. The objectives of this thesis were to investigate the current management of pediatric head injury in Sweden and to …
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Yoga for Pediatric Cancer Out-Patients
… aggressive treatments necessary for survival in pediatric oncology are associated with adverse psychosocial and physical side effects. Physical activity (PA) has been shown to be a safe and effective strategy to positively impact the sequelae of cancer and its treatments. Although there are many …
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Pathway into care for pediatric asthma
… related to asthma. This thesis presents the way pediatric asthma health care providers and a sample of Boston Puerto Rican parents of children with asthma perceive asthma based on data collected through informal interviews. Puerto Ricans are one of the Latino subgroups who remain most at risk for …
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Supporting Nurse Education in the Implementation of a Pediatric Delirium Assessment Protocol in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
… historically been under studied, more so in the pediatric population, despite its long term effects on patients’ health. The deficit in knowledge of delirium leads to an increase in hospital stays and unnecessary unit expenses. My intention with this change project is to increase the awareness of …
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Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis
… mechanism exists creating impaired function for pediatric MS. Results: TSE was not significantly associated with increased odds for MS compared to healthy controls (OR= 1.84; 95%CI 0.86, 3.95) but was significantly associated with higher odds of monophasic ADS compared to healthy controls …
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Pediatric Obesity and Peri-Operative Adverse Events
… effect on morbidity and mortality. Trends in pediatric obesity show increases in both the prevalence and risks for the development of other disease. Using the 1997 through 2009 Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID), this study will assess diagnostic codes to identify complications related to …
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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Skin-Care Team
… PIs at or greater than stage two in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Pressure injury prevention was not a high priority for the nursing staff; nurses were unaware of current PI prevention protocols or the PI prevalence in the PICU.<strong> </strong>The goals are to reduce PIs by …
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