Chronically critically ill pediatric patients represent an emerging population in NICUs and
PICUs. Chronic critical illness has been recognized and defined in the adult population, but …

Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs (CYSHCN), children with medical
complexity (CMC), and children with chronic, critical illness (CCI) represent pediatric …

Objectives: To determine risk factors and outcomes associated with delirium in PICU
patients. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Thirty-two–bed PICU within a tertiary …

BACKGROUND: An increasing proportion of pediatric hospital days are attributed to
technology-dependent children. The impact that a pediatric home care nursing (HCN) …

Importance Estimates of the number of US children receiving intensive care unit (ICU) care
and ICU admission patterns over time are lacking. Objective To determine how ICU …

OBJECTIVES: Children with chronic critical illness (CCI) are hypothesized to be a high-risk
patient population with persistent multiple organ dysfunction and functional morbidities …

Overall pediatric mortality is decreasing in the United States. In 1980, more than 64,000
infants and children less than 15 years of age died in the United States. In striking contrast …

Theoretical principles Children with medical complexity experience negative health
outcomes despite the high costs associated with their care. There is growing evidence that …

Objectives To describe longitudinal trends in long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV) use in
children including changes in clinical characteristics, NIV technology, and outcomes …

Children Living with Health Complexity (CLHC), whose multiple, severe and chronic
conditions differentiate them from those with “complicated” conditions, rely life-long on a vast …