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Comparing Medical Record Abstraction (MRA) error rates in an observational study to pooled rates identified in the data quality literature Open

Maryam Y. Garza, Tremaine B. Williams, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Y. Lee , et al. · 2024

Infant Feeding and Weight Trajectories in the Eat, Sleep, Console Trial Open

Stephanie L. Merhar, Zhuopei Hu, Lori A. Devlin, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Alan E. Simon , et al. · 2024

Importance Infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) cared for with the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) care approach receive less pharmacologic treatment and have shorter hospital stays compared to usual care with the Finnegan Neo…

Influence of Eat, Sleep, and Console on Infants Pharmacologically Treated for Opioid Withdrawal Open

Lori A. Devlin, Zhuopei Hu, Stephanie L. Merhar, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Alan E. Simon , et al. · 2024

Importance The function-based eat, sleep, console (ESC) care approach substantially reduces the proportion of infants who receive pharmacologic treatment for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS). This reduction has led to concerns fo…

Error Rates of Data Processing Methods in Clinical Research: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Manuscripts Identified Through PubMed Open

Maryam Y. Garza, Tremaine B. Williams, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Y. Lee , et al. · 2023

Background: In clinical research, prevention of systematic and random errors of data collected is paramount to ensuring reproducibility of trial results and the safety and efficacy of the resulting interventions. Over the last 40 y…

Vitamin D Oral Replacement in Children With Obesity Related Asthma: <span>VDORA1</span> Randomized Clinical Trial Open

Brian O′Sullivan, S. Ounpraseuth, Laura P. James, Marc Majure, Jason E. Lang , et al. · 2023

Children with asthma and obesity are more likely to have lower vitamin D levels, but the optimal replacement dose is unknown in this population. The objective of this study is identifying a vitamin D dose in children with obesity‐related a…

Pragmatic, randomized, blinded trial to shorten pharmacologic treatment of newborns with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) Open

Adam J. Czynski, Abbot R. Laptook, Abhik Das, Brian J Smith, Alan E. Simon , et al. · 2023

Eat, Sleep, Console Approach or Usual Care for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Open

Leslie Young, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Stephanie L. Merhar, Zhuopei Hu, Alan E. Simon , et al. · 2023

As compared with usual care, use of the Eat, Sleep, Console care approach significantly decreased the number of days until infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome were medically ready for discharge, without increasing specified ad…

Comparing Medical Record Abstraction (MRA) Error Rates in an Observational Study to Pooled Rates Identified in the Data Quality Literature Open

Maryam Y. Garza, Tremaine B. Williams, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Y. Lee , et al. · 2023

The Influence of Mediators on the Relationship Between Antenatal Opioid Agonist Exposure and the Severity of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Open

Lori A. Devlin, Zhuopei Hu, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Alan E. Simon, Robert D. Annett , et al. · 2023

Error Rates of Data Processing Methods in Clinical Research: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open

Maryam Y. Garza, Tremaine B. Williams, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Lee , et al. · 2023

Background: Over the last 30 years, empirical assessments of data accuracy in clinical research have been reported in the literature. Although there have been articles summarizing results reported in multiple papers, there has been little …

Active vs Traditional Methods of Recruiting Children for a Clinical Trial in Rural Primary Care Clinics Open

Paul M. Darden, Ann M. Davis, Jeannette Y. Lee, Milan Bimali, Alan E. Simon , et al. · 2022

Importance To our knowledge, there are no published randomized clinical trials of recruitment strategies. Rigorously evaluated successful recruitment strategies for children are needed. Objective To evaluate the feasibility of 2 recruitmen…

Measuring and controlling medical record abstraction (MRA) error rates in an observational study Open

Maryam Y. Garza, Tremaine B. Williams, Sahiti Myneni, Susan H. Fenton, Songthip Ounpraseuth , et al. · 2022

Eating, Sleeping, Consoling for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (ESC-NOW): a Function-Based Assessment and Management Approach study protocol for a multi-center, stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial Open

Leslie Young, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Stephanie L. Merhar, Alan E. Simon, Abhik Das , et al. · 2022

Measuring and Controlling Medical Record Abstraction (MRA) Error Rates in an Observational Study Open

Maryam Y. Garza, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Y. Lee, Jessica Snowden , et al. · 2022

Background: Studies have shown that data collection by medical record abstraction (MRA) is a significant source of error in clinical studies. Yet, the quality of data collected using MRA is seldom assessed. We employed a novel, theory-base…

Rationale and protocol for a cluster randomized, cross-over trial of recruitment methods of rural children in primary care clinics: A feasibility study of a pediatric weight control trial in the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network Open

Ann M. Davis, Paul M. Darden, Jessica Snowden, Alan E. Simon, Russell J. McCulloh , et al. · 2021

Phenobarbital and Clonidine as Secondary Medications for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Open

Stephanie L. Merhar, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Lori A. Devlin, Brenda B. Poindexter, Leslie Young , et al. · 2021

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite the neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) epidemic in the United States, evidence is limited for pharmacologic management when first-line opioid medications fail to control symptoms. The objective wi…

Toward the use of buprenorphine in infants for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome: summary of an NIH workshop Open

Alan E. Simon, Michelle Freund, Stephanie Wilson Archer, Andrew A. Bremer · 2021

Site-Level Variation in the Characteristics and Care of Infants With Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Open

Leslie Young, Zhuopei Hu, Robert D. Annett, Abhik Das, Janell Fuller , et al. · 2020

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Variation in pediatric medical care is common and contributes to differences in patient outcomes. Site-to-site variation in the characteristics and care of infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) …

Adherence to Vitamin D Intake Guidelines in the United States Open

Alan E. Simon, Katherine A. Ahrens · 2020

BACKGROUND: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) revised its infant vitamin D intake guidelines in 2008. We aimed to examine previously unexplored trends in meeting vitamin D intake guidelines among US infants since 2009 and whether th…

Beyond birth outcomes: Interpregnancy interval and injury‐related infant mortality Open

Marie E. Thoma, Lauren M. Rossen, Dane A. De Silva, Margaret Warner, Alan E. Simon , et al. · 2019

Background Several studies have examined the association between IPI and birth outcomes, but few have explored the association between interpregnancy interval (IPI) and postnatal outcomes. Objective We examined the association between IPI …

The ACT NOW Clinical Practice Survey: Gaps in the Care of Infants With Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Open

Jessica Snowden, A. Akshatha, Robert D. Annett, Margaret M. Crawford, Abhik Das , et al. · 2019

OBJECTIVES: The incidence of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) has increased fivefold over the last 10 years. Standardized NOWS care protocols have revealed many improved patient outcomes. Our objective for this study is to descri…

Training as an Intervention to Decrease Medical Record Abstraction Errors Multicenter Studies. Open

Meredith Zozus, Leslie Young, Alan E. Simon, Maryam Y. Garza, Lora Lawrence , et al. · 2019

Studies often rely on medical record abstraction as a major source of data. However, data quality from medical record abstraction has long been questioned. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) potentially add variability to the abstraction pro…

Gender Differences in the Quality of EMS Care Nationwide for Chest Pain and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Open

Jannet F. Lewis, Scott L. Zeger, Ximin Li, N. Clay Mann, Craig D. Newgard , et al. · 2018

Contribution of weight status to asthma prevalence racial disparities, 2–19 year olds, 1988–2014 Open

Lara J. Akinbami, Lauren M. Rossen, Tala H.I. Fakhouri, Alan E. Simon, Brian K. Kit · 2017

Birth Order and Injury-Related Infant Mortality in the U.S. Open

Katherine A. Ahrens, Lauren M. Rossen, Marie E. Thoma, Margaret Warner, Alan E. Simon · 2017

Housing Assistance Programs and Adult Health in the United States Open

Andrew Fenelon, Patrick Mayne, Alan E. Simon, Lauren M. Rossen, Veronica E. Helms , et al. · 2017

Objectives. To examine whether access to housing assistance is associated with better health among low-income adults. Methods. We used National Health Interview Survey data (1999–2012) linked to US Department of Housing and Urban Developme…

Plurality of Birth and Infant Mortality Due to External Causes in the United States, 2000–2010 Open

Katherine A. Ahrens, Marie E. Thoma, Lauren M. Rossen, Margaret Warner, Alan E. Simon · 2017

Risk of death during the first year of life due to external causes, such as unintentional injury and homicide, may be higher among twins and higher-order multiples than among singletons in the United States. We used national birth cohort l…

ADHD: Insurance and Mental Health Service Use Open

Patricia N. Pastor, Alan E. Simon, Cynthia A. Reuben · 2016

We describe mental health service use by insurance among children aged 4 to 17 with diagnosed attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Using parent reports from 2010-2013 National Health Interview Survey, we estimate the percentag…

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Receipt of Pressure Equalization Tubes Among US Children, 2014 Open

Alan E. Simon, Emily F. Boss, Carla E. Zelaya, Howard J. Hoffman · 2016

Asthma Action Plan Receipt among Children with Asthma 2-17 Years of Age, United States, 2002-2013 Open

Alan E. Simon, Lara J. Akinbami · 2016

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