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from Subsection 4P - Clinical – Pediatrics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2025
Although the principles of pediatric observation medicine are the same as for adults; e.g. more efficient, safer, cost-effective care with decreased length of stay and equivalent or better patient outcomes; there are differences between pediatric and adult observation unit (OU) patients. The diagnoses are somewhat different with asthma, dehydration, gastroenteritis among the top pediatric diagnoses. Pediatric patients tend to need less cardiac monitoring, fewer medications and fewer laboratory and radiologic studies than adults and have a shorter length of stay. Respiratory illnesses, infections and dehydration/gastroenteritis are the predominant pediatric presenting complaints versus cardiac complaints for adults.
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