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ReviewPediatric clinics of North America2017

Morbidity: Changing the Outcome Paradigm for Pediatric Critical Care.

Julia A Heneghan, Murray M Pollack

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Review in Pediatric clinics of North America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Review
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  6. Beyond Staying Alive….Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2025
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  7. Observational
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  9. Supporting families during pediatric critical illness: Opportunities identified in a multicenter, qualitative study.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community · 2024
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  11. Observational
  12. Observational
  13. Article
  14. Promoting Functional Recovery in Critically Ill Children.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2023
    Review
  15. Article
  16. Association of Asthma With Treatments and Outcomes in Children With Critical Influenza.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2023
    Observational
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Julia A HeneghanCritical Care Medicine, Children's National Health System, 111 Michigan Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
Murray M PollackCritical Care Medicine, Children's National Health System, 111 Michigan Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20010, USA; Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Critical Care Medicine, Children's National Health system, 111 Michigan Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20010, USA. Electronic address: mpollack@childrensnational.org.

Funding

Neurodevelopmental Outcome after Cardiac Intensive CareU10HD049981 · NICHD · CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI WESSEL, DAVID LLOYD · 2005 to 2014
$3.7M
Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) at Children's NationalUG1HD049981 · NICHD · CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI POLLACK, MURRAY MICHAEL, WESSEL, DAVID LLOYD · 2015 to 2020
$1.8M
Predicting Morbidity from Pediatric Critical CareU10HD063114 · NICHD · PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI DALTON, HEIDI J, LUND, DENNIS P · 2010 to 2014
$1.4M
NICHD NIH HHS U10 HD049981NICHD NIH HHS U10 HD063114NICHD NIH HHS UG1 HD049981
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The focus of critical care has evolved from saving lives to preservation of function. Morbidity rates in pediatric critical care are approximately double mortality rates. Morbidity includes complications of disease and medical care. In pediatric critical care, functional status morbidity is an intermediate outcome in the progression toward death and is the result of the same factors associated with mortality, including physiologic profiles and case-mix factors. The Functional Status Scale developed by Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network is a validated, granular, age-independent measure of functional status that has proved valuable and practical even in large outcome studies.

Indexed as

Critical CareHealth Status IndicatorsMorbidityChildCritical IllnessHumansOutcome Assessment, Health CarePediatricsQuality of LifeRisk AssessmentCritical careFunctional statusMorbidityOutcomesOutcomes researchPediatric critical carePediatric intensive careQuality

Identifiers

PMID28941541
PMCPMC5654565

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