2016 Publications

Clinical Risk Score for Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms Among Children With Acute Concussion in the ED.
Roger Zemek, Nick Barrowman, Stephen B Freedman, Jocelyn Gravel, Isabelle Gagnon, Candice McGahern, Mary Aglipay, Gurinder Sangha, Kathy Boutis, Darcy Beer, William Craig, Emma Burns, Ken J Farion, Angelo Mikrogianakis, Karen Barlow, Alexander S Dubrovsky, Willem Meeuwisse, Gerard Gioia, William P Meehan, Miriam H Beauchamp, Yael Kamil, Anne M Grool, Blaine Hoshizaki, Peter Anderson, Brian L Brooks, Keith Owen Yeates, Michael Vassilyadi, Terry Klassen, Michelle Keightley, Lawrence Richer, Carol DeMatteo, Martin H Osmond, Jialing Xie, Jennifer Chatfield, Nadia Dow, Rena Papadimitropoulos, Tracey Levesque, Cindy Langford, Tinh Trung Tran, Candice McGahern, Vanessa DiGirolamo, Joanna Mazza, Maryse Lagacé, Ramona Cook, Eleanor Fitzpatrick, Jessica MacIntyre, Jill Moore
JAMA. 2016 Mar; 315(10): 1014-25
[PMID: 26954410 ]

Radiograph-Negative Lateral Ankle Injuries in Children: Occult Growth Plate Fracture or Sprain?
Kathy Boutis, Amy Plint, Jennifer Stimec, Elka Miller, Paul Babyn, Suzanne Schuh, Robert Brison, Louis Lawton, Unni G Narayanan
JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Jan; 170(1): e154114
[PMID: 26747077 ]

Psychosocial Care for Injured Children: Worldwide Survey among Hospital Emergency Department Staff.
Eva Alisic, Claire Hoysted, Nancy Kassam-Adams, Markus A Landolt, Sarah Curtis, Anupam B Kharbanda, Mark D Lyttle, Niccolò Parri, Rachel Stanley, Franz E Babl, Martin Osmond, Amy Plint, Stephen Freedman, David Johnson, Diana Murray, Sarah Williamson-Urquhart, Janet Curran, Andrew Dixon, Garth Meckler, Liza Bialy, Quynh Doan, Antonia Stang, Andrew Dixon, Ahmed Mater, Darcy Beer, Gary Joubert, Anthony Crocco, Adrienne Davis, Andrea Moore, Waleed Alqurashi, Sasha Dubrovsky, Evelyne Trottier, Mathieu Blanchet, Katrina Hurley, Robert Porter, Marc Auerbach, Todd Chang, Andrea Cruz, Charles G Macias, Todd A Florin, Anupam B Kharbanda, Prashant Mahajan, Rakesh Mistry, David Schnadower, Rachel Stanley, Lise Nigrovic, Kenneth Michelson, Joe Zorc, Mark Lyttle, Ian Maconochie, Stuart Hartshorn, Steven Foster, Cath Bevan, Ronan O’Sullivan, Mark Mitchelson, Julie-Ann Maney, Stuart Hartshorn, Cath Bevan, Sarah Potter, Paul Younge, Colin V E Powell, Ronan O’Sullivan, Gisela Robinson, Carol Blackburn, Turlough Bolger, Roisin McNamara, Paul Leonard, Adam Reuben, Vince Choudhery, Joanne Mulligan, Roger Alcock, Ffion Davies, Bimal Mehta, Ami Parikh, James Ross, John Criddle, Emer Sutherland, Tina Sajjanhar, Shye Wong, Jai Thiagarajan, Ian Maconochie, Andrew Rowland, Katherine Potier, Clare Dieppe, Lucy Thomas, Jason Smith, Chris Vorwerk, Kate Lenton, Derek Burke, Jason Barling, Niall Mullen, Kirsty Dickson-Jardine, Santiago Mintegui Raso, Borja Gómez, Liviana Da Dalt, Alain Gervaix, Ian Maconochie, Henriette Moll, Yehezkel Waisman, Niccolò Parri, Luigi Titomanlio, Niccolò Parri, Javier Benito, Hayri Levent Yilmaz, Liviana Da Dalt, Ozlem Teksam, Geetanjali Srivastava, Zsolt Bognar, Alain Gervaix, Diana Moldovan, Carles Luaces-Cubells, Nadeem Qureshi, Gerard Cheron, Felix Kreier, Roberto Velasco, Luigi Titomanlio, Yehezkel Waisman, Sandrine Leroy, Henriette Moll, Gabor Simon, Patrick Van de Voorde, Santiago Mintegi, Rachel Stanley, Richard Ruddy, Peter Dayan, Robert Hickey, Nathan Kuppermann, James Chamberlain, J Michael Dean, E Brooke Lerner, Alexander Rogers, Prashant Mahajan, Daniel Cohen, Lynn Babcock, David Schnadower, David Brousseau, Maria Kwok, Charles Macias, Andrea Cruz, Lalit Bajaj, Robert Hickey, Thomas Chun, Jonathan Bennett, Leah Tzimenatos, Joe Zorc, Douglas Nelson, Kathy Brown, Elizabeth Powell, Lise Nigrovic, Nicholas Cheng, Michael Zhang, Simon Craig, Franz E Babl, Stuart Dalziel, Kam Sinn, Mary McCaskill, Shane George, Michael Zhang, Natalie Jocelyn Neutze, Simon Phillips, Meredith Craig, Franz E Borland, Stuart Babl, Lisa Dalziel, Arjun Barrow, Jeremy Rao, Amit Furyk, Nathan Kochar, Mark Kuppermann, Ronan Lyttle, Santiago O’Sullivan, Patrick Mintegui Raso, Martin Van de Voorde, David Osmond, Jim Johnson, Charles Chamberlain, Anupam Macias, Franz Kharbanda, Stuart Babl, Dalziel
J Pediatr. 2016 Mar; 170: 227-233.e6
[PMID: 26707581 ]

National Survey on the Impact of Viral Testing for the ED and Inpatient Management of Febrile Young Infants.
Brett Burstein, Alexander Sasha Dubrovsky, Andrew Walsh Greene, Caroline Quach
Hosp Pediatr. 2016 Mar; 6(4): 226-33
[PMID: 27005580 ]

Management of Bronchiolitis in Community Hospitals in Ontario: a Multicentre Cohort Study.
Amy C Plint, Monica Taljaard, Candice McGahern, Shannon D Scott, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Terry P Klassen, David W Johnson
CJEM. 2016 Feb: 1-10
[PMID: 26906352 ]

Increasing Access to Mental Health Care With Breathe, an Internet-Based Program for Anxious Adolescents: Study Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
Amanda S Newton, Lori Wozney, Alexa Bagnell, Eleanor Fitzpatrick, Sarah Curtis, Mona Jabbour, David Johnson, Rhonda J Rosychuk, Michael Young, Arto Ohinmaa, Anthony Joyce, Patrick McGrath
JMIR Res Protoc. 2016 Jan; 5(1): e18
[PMID: 26825111 ]

Reported provision of analgesia to patients with acute abdominal pain in Canadian paediatric emergency departments.
Naveen Poonai, Allyson Cowie, Chloe Davidson, Andréanne Benidir, Graham C Thompson, Philippe Boisclair, Stuart Harman, Michael Miller, Andreana Butter, Rod Lim, Samina Ali
CJEM. 2016 Jan: 1-8
[PMID: 26804807 ]

Magnesium nebulization utilization in management of pediatric asthma (MagNUM PA) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Suzanne Schuh, Judy Sweeney, Stephen B Freedman, Allan L Coates, David W Johnson, Graham Thompson, Jocelyn Gravel, Francine M Ducharme, Roger Zemek, Amy C Plint, Darcy Beer, Terry Klassen, Sarah Curtis, Karen Black, Darcy Nicksy, Andrew R Willan
Trials. 2016 May; 17(1): 261
[PMID: 27220675 ]

Scalp Hematoma Characteristics Associated With Intracranial Injury in Pediatric Minor Head Injury.
Burns EC, Grool AM, Klassen TP, Correll R, Jarvis A, Joubert G, Bailey B, Chauvin-Kimoff L, Pusic M, McConnell D, Nijssen-Jordan C, Silver N, Taylor B, Osmond MH; Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) Head Injury Study Group.
Acad Emerg Med. 2016 May; 5(23): 576-83
[PMID: 26947778 ]

Province-Wide Review of Pediatric Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Case Management.
Stephen B Freedman, Mohamed Eltorki, Linda Chui, Jianling Xie, Sharon Feng, Judy MacDonald, Andrew Dixon, Samina Ali, Marie Louie, Bonita E Lee, Lara Osterreicher, Jennifer Thull-Freedman
J Pediatr. 2016 Oct
[PMID: 27745751 ]

Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infection, Antibiotics, and Risk of Developing Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: A Meta-analysis.
Stephen B Freedman, Jianling Xie, Madisen S Neufeld, William L Hamilton, Lisa Hartling, Phillip I Tarr, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Anderson Chuck, Bonita Lee, David Johnson, Gillian Currie, James Talbot, Jason Jiang, Jim Dickinson, Jim Kellner, Judy MacDonald, Larry Svenson, Linda Chui, Marie Louie, Martin Lavoie, Mohamed Eltorki, Otto Vanderkooi, Raymond Tellier, Samina Ali, Steven Drews, Tim Graham, Xiao-Li Pang
Clin Infect Dis. 2016 May; 62(10): 1251-8
[PMID: 26917812 ]

A trial to determine whether septic shock-reversal is quicker in pediatric patients randomized to an early goal-directed fluid-sparing strategy versus usual care (SQUEEZE): study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Melissa J Parker, Lehana Thabane, Alison Fox-Robichaud, Patricia Liaw, Karen Choong
Trials. 2016 Nov; 17(1): 556
[PMID: 27876084 ]

Association of Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms With Pediatric Quality of Life.
Zuzana Novak, Mary Aglipay, Nick Barrowman, Keith O Yeates, Miriam H Beauchamp, Jocelyn Gravel, Stephen B Freedman, Isabelle Gagnon, Gerard Gioia, Kathy Boutis, Emma Burns, Andrée-Anne Ledoux, Martin H Osmond, Roger L Zemek
JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Oct: e162900
[PMID: 27775762 ]

Pain management of acute appendicitis in Canadian pediatric emergency departments.
Andrea L Robb, Samina Ali, Naveen Poonai, Graham C Thompson
CJEM. 2016 Dec; 19(6): 417-423
[PMID: 27899166 ]

2016

Congratulations to Roger Zemek and team for their publication on the derivation and validation of a clinical risk score for persistent postconcussion symptoms. This important study received the attention of the Federal Health Minister (Jane Philpott), and we are told that ‘PERC’ was mentioned as a main contributor to the study’s success!

Great work everyone on this ground breaking study on concussion. Citation and media links below.

Zemek R, Barrowman N, Freedman SB, Gravel J, Gagnon I, McGahern C, Aglipay M, Sangha G, Boutis K, Beer D, Craig W, Burns E, Farion K, Mikrogianakis A, Barlow K, Dubrovsky AS, Meeuwisse W, Gioia G, Meehan WP, Beauchamp M, Kamil Y, Grool AM, Hoshizaki B, Anderson P, Brooks BL, Yeates KO, Vassilyadi M, Klassen T, Keightley M, Richer L, DeMatteo C, Osmond MH, for the PERC Concussion Team. 

Clinical risk score for persistent postconcussion symptoms among children with acute concussion in the ED. JAMA 2016;315(10):1014-1025. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2499274&resultClick=3

CTV News: http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/mobile/cheo-led-research-boys-get-more-concussions-but-symptoms-last-longer-in-girls-1.2809071

Global News: http://globalnews.ca/news/2564638/canadian-docs-pioneer-new-test-to-predict-concussion-recovery-time-in-kids/