The Division of Emergency Medicine exceeded funding goals by submitting 23 grants as a primary site and seven as a subrecipient and obtaining four more via new faculty and industry. Cincinnati Children’s became a principal investigator within the national Pediatric Emergency Care Research Network (PECARN) along with partners St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Research stakeholders led by Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH, held a research retreat resulting in a mandate for an improved mentoring plan and restructuring of institutional investment.
In clinical research, Lynn Babcock, MD, MPH, and Scott Reeves, MD, were authors on the landmark PECARN study on cervical spine injury, “Factors Associated with Cervical Spine Injury in Children after Blunt Trauma” (Annals of Emergency Medicine, Oct. 2010). Benjamin Kerrey, MD, Matthew Mittiga, MD, and Andrea Rinderknecht, MD, presented innovative work on resuscitation procedures, while Babcock presented pioneering work on mild traumatic brain injury. Gary Geis, MD, Derek Wheeler, MD, and Mary Patterson, MD, MEd, were funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop expertise in sepsis identification through use of simulation.
In prevention research,a team directed by Grupp-Phelan led the division with funded grants and continues to publish important work in mental health screening, smoking prevention , cultural issues across ethnic groups and injury control.
In quality research, a team led by Evaline Alessandrini, MD, MSCE, and Reeves, presented work at the Pediatric Academic Societies conference, published in the first issue of Pediatrics devoted to quality (Iyer et al: “Use of quality improvement methods to improve timeliness of analgesic delivery”) and published two papers in the “Quality in Pediatric Emergency Medicine” issue of Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine (June 2011). Two division members (Holly Brodzinski, MD, and Jennifer Reed, MD) received Place Awards for institutional outcomes research. The first paper on quality measures in pediatric emergency medicine from Alessandrini’s EMSC grant was published in the May issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.
In educational research, Javier Gonzalez del Rey, MD, MEd, received funding on two grants to expand the primary care residency and hand-offs by pediatric residents. Faculty contributed to several excellent papers and to Fleisher and Ludwig’s5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult.
