Pediatric Urgent Care Research

The entire March 2017 issue of Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine was dedicated to Urgent Care, led by guest editor, Dr. David Mathison, Mid-Atlantic Regional Medical Director for PM Pediatrics. Articles spanned overarching topics in pediatric urgent care: the medical neighborhood, transport, and telemedicine; as well as clinical pearls in pain management, traumatic brain injury, fractures, eye injuries, and wound care.

Two UC research projects were presented as platform presentations at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in San Francisco.  "Urgent Care Utilization in the Pediatric Medicaid Population” and "Urgent Care Reliance in the Pediatric Medicaid Population.” These two abstracts are currently manuscripts under consideration by journals - keep your eye out to see them in print!

Amanda Montalbano, MD, MPH, FAAP received at $2000 grant from UMKC School of Medicine to create national Achievable Benchmarks of Care (ABCs) for pediatric patients seen in urgent care for bronchiolitis, croup, and pneumonia from the nationally representative Cerner Health Facts(c) database. This pilot project will hopefully lead to a NIH grant to support turning the administrative Organization for Urgent Care Health (OUCH) database into a national pediatric urgent care clinical research tool.

A summary from the 2016 OUCH Survey will be available shortly.  If you did not participate in the 2016 survey and want to make sure you get an invitation to participate, email your contact information (name, position, and mailing address) to amontalbano@cmh.edu. The 2017 Survey is planned to be released just prior to the SPUC conference in Seattle.  Dr. Montalbano will be in attendance and happy to answer any questions about how to complete the survey.

Starting late this summer, two teams of pediatric urgent care centers will be collaborating with each group developing a QI project.  Teams are forming now, if you use EPIC or Cerner in your pediatric urgent care and would like to participate, contact Dr. Montalbano by July 31, 2017.

Amanda Montalbano, MD, MPH, FAAP
amontalbano@cmh.edu

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