Background: Inappropriate health care leads to negative patient experiences, poor health
outcomes and inefficient use of resources. We aimed to conduct a systematic review of …

Importance There is low level of evidence and substantial practice variation regarding the
use of intermittent or continuous monitoring in infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis …

Importance National guidelines recommend against continuous pulse oximetry use for
hospitalized children with bronchiolitis who are not receiving supplemental oxygen, yet …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Alarm fatigue is exacerbated by frequent, nonactionable
physiologic monitor alarms. Overutilization of pulse oximetry (SpO2) compounds this alarm …

Research in Pediatric Hospital Medicine is growing and expanding rapidly, and with this
comes the need to expand single-site research projects into multisite research studies within …

Importance Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive technology that is integral to the supportive care
of hospitalized infants with bronchiolitis. A multicenter, randomized trial comparing the …

OBJECTIVES The health care system faces ongoing challenges due to low-value care.
Building on the first pediatric hospital medicine contribution to the American Board of …

BACKGROUND: Because of the impact of continuous pulse oximetry (CPOX) on the
overdiagnosis of hypoxemia in bronchiolitis, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the …

Although the number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published each year involving
adult populations is steadily rising, the annual number of RCTs published involving pediatric …

RESULTS Overall, we identified 201 articles pertaining to pediatric medical overuse (Fig 1).
For the manual table of content review, 4559 articles were reviewed, and 195 (4%) articles …