JAMA PediatricsPub Date : 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4572
Erik A Jensen
{"title":"Systemic Corticosteroids to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Balancing Risk and Reward.","authors":"Erik A Jensen","doi":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4572","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14683,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142647952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PediatricsPub Date : 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4830
Alison Gemmill, Suzanne O Bell
{"title":"When Science and Politics Are Mixed-Reply.","authors":"Alison Gemmill, Suzanne O Bell","doi":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4830","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14683,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142647899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PediatricsPub Date : 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4575
Lex W Doyle, Rheanna Mainzer, Jeanie L Y Cheong
{"title":"Systemic Postnatal Corticosteroids, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, and Survival Free of Cerebral Palsy.","authors":"Lex W Doyle, Rheanna Mainzer, Jeanie L Y Cheong","doi":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4575","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4575","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Systemic postnatal corticosteroids have been shown to reduce rates of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in infants born preterm, but both corticosteroids and BPD are associated with cerebral palsy.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To describe how the association between systemic postnatal corticosteroids and survival free of cerebral palsy varies with the risk of BPD in infants born preterm, and if the association differs between dexamethasone and hydrocortisone, or with age at starting treatment.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This comparative effectiveness research used weighted meta-regression analysis of eligible randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of systemic postnatal corticosteroids reported from June 1989 through March 2022 that included rates of all of BPD, mortality, and cerebral palsy in neonatal intensive care units in 10 countries. Infants born preterm at risk of BPD were included. Data were analyzed from April and July 2024.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Systemic dexamethasone or hydrocortisone.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Type and timing of corticosteroid, control group rate of BPD, and risk difference in survival free of cerebral palsy between corticosteroid and control arms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-six RCTs with data on 3700 randomized infants were eligible; 18 (69%) investigated dexamethasone and 8 (31%) hydrocortisone; 12 (46%) started treatment in the first week after birth. There was evidence for a differential association of the type of corticosteroid with the effect of systemic dexamethasone on survival free of cerebral palsy and the risk of BPD in control groups (interaction coefficient, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.25-0.82; P = .001). For dexamethasone, for every 10-percentage point increase in the risk of BPD, the risk difference for survival free of cerebral palsy increased by 3.74% (95% CI, 1.54 to 5.93; P = .002). Dexamethasone was associated with improved survival free of cerebral palsy at a risk of BPD greater than 70%. Conversely, dexamethasone was associated with harm at a risk of BPD less than 30%. There was some evidence for a negative association with hydrocortisone, with possible benefit with risk of BPD less than 30%. There was no strong evidence for a differential effect of timing among those treated with dexamethasone (interaction coefficient, 0.13; 95% CI, -0.04 to 0.30; P = .14).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>The findings suggest that dexamethasone (compared with control) was associated with improved rates of survival free of cerebral palsy in infants at high risk of BPD but should be avoided in those at low risk. A role for hydrocortisone is uncertain.</p>","PeriodicalId":14683,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142647880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PediatricsPub Date : 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4727
L. Lee Dupuis, Donna L. Johnston, David Dix, Sarah McKillop, Sadie Cook, Nicole Crellin-Parsons, Ketan Kulkarni, Serina Patel, Magimairajan lssai Vanan, Paul Gibson, Dilip Soman, Susan Kuczynski, George A. Tomlinson, Lillian Sung
{"title":"Symptom Screening for Hospitalized Pediatric Patients With Cancer","authors":"L. Lee Dupuis, Donna L. Johnston, David Dix, Sarah McKillop, Sadie Cook, Nicole Crellin-Parsons, Ketan Kulkarni, Serina Patel, Magimairajan lssai Vanan, Paul Gibson, Dilip Soman, Susan Kuczynski, George A. Tomlinson, Lillian Sung","doi":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4727","url":null,"abstract":"ImportancePediatric patients with cancer experience severely bothersome symptoms during treatment. It was hypothesized that symptom screening and provision of symptom reports to the health care team would reduce symptom burden in pediatric patients with cancer.ObjectiveTo determine if daily symptom screening and provision of symptom reports to the health care team was associated with lower total symptom burden as measured by the Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) compared to usual care among pediatric patients with cancer admitted to a hospital or seen in a clinic daily for at least 5 days.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis randomized clinical trial enrolled participants from July 2018 to September 2023 from 8 Canadian tertiary care centers that diagnose and treat pediatric patients with cancer. Patients aged 8 to 18 years with cancer expected to be in a hospital or clinic daily for at least 5 consecutive days were eligible for inclusion. Participants were randomized to intervention (n = 176) vs control (n = 169) groups. Data were analyzed from November 2023 to December 2023.InterventionIntervention participants completed the SSPedi once daily for 5 days. Printed symptom reports were provided daily to the health care team, and email alerts were distributed for severely bothersome symptoms. Control participants received usual care.Main Outcomes and MeasuresThe primary outcome was self-reported total SSPedi score on day 5. Secondary outcomes were individual SSPedi symptoms, pain, quality of life, symptom documentation, and intervention provision. The primary analysis compared the day 5 total SSPedi scores between randomized groups using a multiple linear regression model. For the secondary analysis comparing individual SSPedi symptom scores, the odds ratio for the intervention was estimated using a proportional odds model. Pain and quality of life were analyzed using the same approach as the primary outcome. Fisher exact test was used to compare symptom documentation, any intervention, and symptom-specific intervention between groups.ResultsA total of 345 participants were enrolled; median (range) participant age was 13.8 (8.0-18.8) years, and 150 participants (43.5%) were female. Day 5 SSPedi score was significantly better with symptom screening compared to usual care (adjusted mean difference, −2.5; 95% CI, −3.8 to −1.2). Symptom screening reduced the odds of higher individual symptom scores; 8 of 15 symptom reductions were statistically significant. There were no significant differences in pain or quality of life scores between groups. Five symptoms were documented or treated significantly more often with symptom screening than usual care.Conclusions and RelevanceIn this randomized clinical trial, among pediatric patients with cancer admitted to a hospital or seen in a clinic daily for at least 5 days, symptom screening with SSPedi improved total symptom scores compared to usual care.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:","PeriodicalId":14683,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Pediatrics","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142610067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PediatricsPub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4449
Ameet Sarpatwari, Liam Bendicksen, Douglas S Hawkins, Lia Gore, Florence T Bourgeois
{"title":"Pediatric Exclusivity Revenues for Cancer Drugs.","authors":"Ameet Sarpatwari, Liam Bendicksen, Douglas S Hawkins, Lia Gore, Florence T Bourgeois","doi":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4449","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4449","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14683,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11555575/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142620736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PediatricsPub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4385
Sheri Madigan, Raela Thiemann, Audrey-Ann Deneault, R. M. Pasco Fearon, Nicole Racine, Julianna Park, Carole A. Lunney, Gina Dimitropoulos, Serena Jenkins, Tyler Williamson, Ross D. Neville
{"title":"Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Child Population Samples","authors":"Sheri Madigan, Raela Thiemann, Audrey-Ann Deneault, R. M. Pasco Fearon, Nicole Racine, Julianna Park, Carole A. Lunney, Gina Dimitropoulos, Serena Jenkins, Tyler Williamson, Ross D. Neville","doi":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4385","url":null,"abstract":"ImportanceExposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) before the age of 18 years is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and disability.ObjectiveTo meta-analyze data from samples with children 18 years or younger to estimate the average prevalence of ACEs, identify characteristics and contexts associated with higher or lower ACE exposure, and explore methodological factors that might influence these prevalence estimates.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsStudies that were published between January 1, 1998 and February 19, 2024, were sourced from MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINHAL, and Embase. Inclusion criteria required studies to report the prevalence of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 or more ACEs using an 8- or 10-item ACEs questionnaire (plus or minus 2 items), include population samples of children 18 years or younger, and be published in English. Data from 65 studies, representing 490 423 children from 18 countries, were extracted and synthesized using a multicategory prevalence meta-analysis. These data were analyzed from February 20, 2024, through May 17, 2024.Main Outcomes and MeasuresACEs.ResultsThe mean age of children across studies was 11.9 (SD, 4.3) years, the age range across samples was 0 to 18 years, and 50.5% were female. The estimated mean prevalences were 42.3% for 0 ACEs (95% CI, 25.3%-52.7%), 22.0% for 1 ACE (95% CI, 9.9%-32.7%), 12.7% for 2 ACEs (95% CI, 3.8%-22.3%), 8.1% for 3 ACEs (95% CI, 1.4%-16.8%), and 14.8% for 4 or more ACEs (95% CI, 5.1%-24.8%). The prevalence of 4 or more ACEs was higher among adolescents vs children (prevalence ratio, 1.16; 95% CI, 1.04-1.30), children in residential care (1.26; 95% CI, 1.10-1.43), with a history of juvenile offending (95% CI, 1.29; 1.24-1.34), and in Indigenous peoples (1.63; 95% CI, 1.28-2.08), as well as in studies where file review was the primary assessment method (1.29; 95% CI, 1.23-1.34). The prevalence of 0 ACEs was lower in questionnaire-based studies where children vs parents were informants (0.85; 95% CI, 0.80-0.90).ConclusionsIn this study, ACEs were prevalent among children with notable disparities across participant demographic characteristics and contexts. As principal antecedent threats to child and adolescent well-being that can affect later life prospects, ACEs represent a pressing global social issue. Effective early identification and prevention strategies, including targeted codesigned community interventions, can reduce the prevalence of ACEs and mitigate their severe effects, thereby minimizing the harmful health consequences of childhood adversity in future generations.","PeriodicalId":14683,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Pediatrics","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142598510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA PediatricsPub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4443
Sarah H. Cross, Khaliah A. Johnson, Maura A. Savage, Dio Kavalieratos
{"title":"Location of Pediatric Deaths in the US","authors":"Sarah H. Cross, Khaliah A. Johnson, Maura A. Savage, Dio Kavalieratos","doi":"10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4443","url":null,"abstract":"This cross-sectional study assesses the associations of decedent demographic characteristics and cause of death with place of death among children, adolescents, and young adults.","PeriodicalId":14683,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Pediatrics","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142598512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}