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In the United States, an estimated 88,000 youth are released from juvenile detention facilities each year. Youth exiting the juvenile detention system suffer from high rates of health risk behaviors and a disproportionate share of morbidity and mortality. These youth often lack access…
OBJECTIVES: To compare the presentation of young children with abdominal trauma caused by high-velocity accidental (HVA), low-velocity accidental (LVA), and inflicted injury, and to test the hypothesis that a delay in care is highly predictive of an inflicted injury. METHODS: We…
Some children living with life-shortening medical conditions may wish to attend school without the threat of having resuscitation attempted in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest on the school premises. Despite recent attention to in-school do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) orders,…
BACKGROUND: To help design population-based pediatric palliative care services, we sought to describe the hospital care received in the last year of life by children and young adults who died. We also determined the proportion with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) and tested whether…
This Research at a Glance brief presents findings from a recent study of refugee health, including findings that refugees are more likely to have worse health status, chronic disease, disabling pain, and higher rates of uninsurance than other immigrants.
This Evidence to Action brief provides an overview of data collection systems and identifies strategies to improve tracking of child abuse and neglect cases. Nearly one out of every 100 children in the United States were identified by state child protective service (CPS) agencies as…
The global rise in non-communicable disease (NCD) suggests that US-based refugees are increasingly affected by chronic conditions. However, health services have focused on the detection of infectious disease, with relatively limited data on chronic NCDs. Using data from a…
This Research at a Glance brief summarizes the findings and recommendations of a PolicyLab research project that reveals that the proportion of children in foster care who are prescribed psychotropic medication continues to be much higher than all Medicaid-enrolled children. …
This Research at a Glance brief summarizes the results of a PolicyLab study that described the relationship between serious traumatic brain injury among children and rates of foreclosure.
This Research at a Glance brief describes the findings from a PolicyLab study looking at which children are using antipshycotic medications, and for what conditions.