The 24/7 Safety Net: UCSF Pediatric Hospitalists Anchor Care Across the Bay Area | Department of Pediatrics When a child is admitted to the hospital, their family can face a dizzying array of tests, interventions, and specialists. Without seamless coordination, vital information can fall through the cracks,...

Honored to have our work about addressing the social needs of hospitalized children mentioned in this post highlighting all the incredible efforts my colleagues are leading in UCSF's Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine:
pediatrics.ucsf.edu/news/247-saf...

#SDOH @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social

Thanks, KQED, for highlighting the ZSFGH Tattoo Removal Clinic and some of the great people involved with it. It's a true privilege to work there thanks to support from
@zsfgcare.bsky.social, @sfdph.bsky.social, & the UCSF Dept of Pediatrics. Shout out to CARECEN, providing similar services in SF.

Inequities in Behavioral Flags for Hospitalized Pediatric Patients This cohort study among pediatric patients in an urban academic health system examines whether receiving a behavioral flag in the electronic health record is associated with racial, ethnic, and socioe...

Thanks Dr. April Edwell for leading this important work with co-authors Dr. Jia Xin Huang and Dr. Tasce Bongiovanni showing racial and insurance inequities in the application of behavioral flags for hospitalized kids:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Inequities in Inpatient Pediatric Patient Safety Events by Category OBJECTIVES. Few studies have analyzed potential inequities in both pediatric patient safety events (PSEs) and adverse events (AEs) - PSEs leading to harm - nor in PSEs by event type. We sought to exam...

In our new paper we describe inequities in inpatient pediatric patient safety events by race, ethnicity, and insurance. Thanks to great collaborators @kaylakarvonen.bsky.social,Paige Porter,James Stotts,John Neuhaus,&Arpi Bekmezian. @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social
#patientsafety
doi.org/10.1542/hped...