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Transformational Pediatrics Podcast

Interviews with physicians and researchers at Children’s Mercy Kansas City who are transforming pediatric care through genomic medicine, personalized therapeutics, health services and outcomes research...

HearPlay Audiometric Testing App from Children's Mercy

HearPlay is an audiometric testing app for children 2 1/2 to 5 years that supports conditioned play audiometry (CPA) for measuring speech reception thresholds and pure tone thresholds.

Critical Care Transport Safety

Safety is the top priority for Children's Mercy Critical Care Transport. Safety awareness is integrated into all aspects of the transport program. Each day people entrust the transport teams with their...

Email Updates for Physicians & Providers

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Pediatric Obesity

Recommendations for pediatricians regarding diagnosis, management, and when to refer to a Children's Mercy specialist.

The DAISY Award

Award Children's Mercy joins over 1,000 other hospitals and medical facilities around the country in participating in the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The DAISY award was created to recognize...

Provider Relations Team

The Provider Relations team serves as liaisons between Children's Mercy and all referring providers and their staff.

Evidence-Based Strategies for Common Clinical Questions January 2021

As was discussed in last month’s LINK column on evidence-based practice, children are disproportionately affected by secondhand smoke, and this exposure is detrimental to children’s health. The Surgeon...

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Bacterial Conjunctivitis … Does It Always Need Antibiotics?: Wise Use of Antibiotics

Column Author & Editor: Rana El Feghaly, MD, MSCI | Director, Clinical Services | Director, Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Program | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine  ...

Link Newsletter - December 2023

Our December issue features the latest news and updates on pediatric care from Children's Mercy clinicians. We want to hear from you! Do you have ideas, questions or suggestions for future articles in The...

Outbreaks, Alerts and Hot Topics: Nirsevimab and RSV: Long-Term High Hopes and Short-Term Cautious Optimism

A new monoclonal antibody to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), nirsevimab (Beyfortus), has been approved and recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for all infants...

Bioethics: Addressing the Burdens That Newborn Screening Imposes on Underserved Communities

Newborn screening (NBS) began in the 1960s with testing for phenylketonuria (PKU), which, when identified and treated early, significantly reduces morbidity. While NBS is rightly viewed as a public health...

Evidence Based Strategies: Implications of Marijuana Legalization and Identification of THC Toxidrome in the Young

Recreational marijuana first became legal in two states in 2012. As of January 2023, only four states have not decriminalized marijuana in some capacity.1 A challenge to legalizing marijuana is a decrease...

Visual Diagnosis: Eye Movement

A 4-year-old male is brought to the emergency department by his mother for further evaluation of ear pain and headache.

Ethics from the Pediatric Home Care Perspective: Bioethics

Column Authors: Lisa Bailey, BSN, RN, CPN | Children’s Mercy Home Care   Angie Knackstedt, BSN, RN, NPD-BC | Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center Column Editor: Brian Carter, MD |

Can You Keep a Secret?

Column Author: Sunny Jeong, BScN, RN, MBE | Pediatric Fellow  Column Editor: Brian Carter, MD | Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine, Bioethics; Neonatologist; Pediatric Bioethicist; Interim Director...

What's the Diagnosis: Injured Finger

A previously healthy 3-year-old male presents to Children Mercy’s Emergency Department (ED) due to finger injury. Parents state that patient’s right third fingertip was accidentally shut in a car door...

Alternative Diagnoses

Syncope, convulsive syncope Complicated migraine or migraine with aura Gastrointestinal disorders (reflux) Psychiatric conditions (panic attacks, psychogenic non-epileptic events) Transient ischemic attack...

Stroke

Clinical Pathways promote evidence-based, safe, and high-value care for patients by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...