Contemporary Care and Outcomes of Critically-ill Children With Clinically Diagnosed Myocarditis
Purpose: To describe contemporary management and outcomes in children with myocarditis who are admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) and to identify the characteristics associated with mortality. Methods: All patients in the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) registry between August 2014 and June 2021 who were diagnosed with myocarditis were included. Univariable analyses and […]
Methods to Enhance Causal Inference for Assessing Impact of Clinical Informatics Platform Implementation
Abstract Background: Hospitals are increasingly likely to implement clinical informatics tools to improve quality of care, necessitating rigorous approaches to evaluate effectiveness. We leveraged a multi-institutional data repository and applied causal inference methods to assess implementation of a commercial data visualization software in our pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. Methods: Natural experiment in the University of Michigan […]
Pediatric Patients Hospitalized with Myocarditis: a Multi-Institutional Analysis
The objective of this study was to identify the patient, institutional, and utilization characteristics associated with outcome in hospitalized pediatric patients with myocarditis.