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Developing a Diagnosis-based Severity Classification System for Use in Emergency Medical Services for Children

  1. Evaline A. Alessandrini MD, MSCE,
  2. Elizabeth R. Alpern MD, MSCE,
  3. James M. Chamberlain MD,
  4. Judy A. Shea PhD,
  5. Richard Holubkov PhD,
  6. Marc H. Gorelick MD, MSCE,
  7. for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network†

Article first published online: 17 JAN 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01250.x

Issue

Academic Emergency Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volume 19, Issue 1, pages 70–78, January 2012

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Alessandrini, E. A., Alpern, E. R., Chamberlain, J. M., Shea, J. A., Holubkov, R., Gorelick, M. H. and for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (2012), Developing a Diagnosis-based Severity Classification System for Use in Emergency Medical Services for Children. Academic Emergency Medicine, 19: 70–78. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01250.x

Author Information

  1. From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence and Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center (EAA), Cincinnati, OH; the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (ERA), Philadelphia, PA; the Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center (JMC), Washington, DC; the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (JAS), Philadelphia, PA; the Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah Health Sciences (RH), Salt Lake City, UT; and the Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin and Section of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (MHG), Milwaukee, WI.

  1. †

    PECARN members are listed in ‡.

*Address for correspondence and reprints: Evaline A. Alessandrini, MD, MSCE; e-mail: evaline.alessandrini@cchmc.org.

  1. †

    PECARN members are listed in ‡.

  2. Presented in part at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meetings, May 2007, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  3. Funding was obtained through an HRSA Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Targeted Issues Grant (Grant H34MC02547) and The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) is supported by cooperative agreements U03MC00001, U03MC00003, U03MC00006, U03MC00007, and U03MC00008 from the EMSC program of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  4. The authors have no further disclosures or conflicts of interest to report.

  5. Supervising Editor: Lowell Gerson, PhD.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 17 JAN 2012
  2. Article first published online: 17 JAN 2012
  3. Received May 4, 2011; revisions received July 2 and July 5, 2011; accepted July 6, 2011.

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