Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42902891›Full record

ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2026

Discover to Deliver Pediatric Futures: Viewpoints of Future Medicine From a Pediatric Health Care System.

Vanessa Sincock Watkins, Ken Chang, Laura Sarff, Jared Vavroch, Dawn Wolff, Lori Erickson

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

6 authors.

Vanessa Sincock WatkinsStrategy, Innovation, and Partnerships, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States, 1 8162343000.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-9799-7576
Ken ChangStrategy, Innovation, and Partnerships, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States, 1 8162343000.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-4963-1755
Laura SarffStrategy, Innovation, and Partnerships, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States, 1 8162343000.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1879-2747
Jared VavrochStrategy, Innovation, and Partnerships, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States, 1 8162343000.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-8522-2141
Dawn WolffStrategy, Innovation, and Partnerships, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States, 1 8162343000.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-5610-5432
Lori EricksonStrategy, Innovation, and Partnerships, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States, 1 8162343000.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0406-6595

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unlabelled: Pediatric health care systems face increasing uncertainty driven by rapid technological change, workforce shifts and shortages, environmental threats, and evolving family and community needs. Pediatrics requires future-focused considerations that go beyond adult systems, including family-centered care, developmental trajectories, and long-term societal impacts on child well-being. While the future cannot be predicted, futures medicine methods offer structured approaches to anticipate change and support proactive, values-driven planning. This Viewpoint describes the application of pediatric futures methods within an academic, independent nonprofit pediatric health system and proposes a practical framework that connects future readiness to strategic decision-making and daily care delivery. Futures medicine methods are not new in pediatric health care but may not be visible from the front line of care delivery, which provides an opportunity for clinical, operational, administrative, and enterprise leaders to implement these methods in their workflows. This paper introduces the discover to deliver pediatric futures framework, a continuum that links long-range futures discovery to near-term strategic planning, operational design, implementation, and outcome demonstration, emphasizing future methods and activities for applicable use.

Indexed as

Delivery of Health CarePediatricsChildForecastingHumanschildforecastingfuturepediatricsstrategic planning

Identifiers

PMID42902891
PMCPMC13683991

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.