- Board Certified:
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Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Pediatrics
- Medical/Professional School:
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Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans
- Residency:
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Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Pediatrics
- Fellowship:
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Children's Hospital of Los Angeles - Pediatric Residency, Los Angeles, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Research Focus Area:
Quality Improvement
Epidemiology
- Description of Research:
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My research is focused on identifying metrics to assess the quality of care provided in pediatric critical care units, developing scoring systems to understand outcomes following pediatric cardiothoracic surgery and reducing the occurrence of hospital acquired infections.
- Key Publications:
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Alfonso I, Papazian O, Aicardi J, Jeffries H. A simple maneuver to provoke benign neonatal sleep mycolonus. Pediatr 1995; 96: 1161-3.
Garrison M, Jeffries H, Christakis D. Risk of death for children with Down syndrome and sepsis. J Pediatr 2005; 147: 748-52.
Jeffries H, Wells W, Starnes VA, Wetzel RC, Moromisato D. Gastrointestinal morbidity in neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome following Norwood palliation. Ann Thorac Surg. 2006 Mar; 81(3):982-7.
Del Castillo S, Wong P, Jeffries H, Moromisato D. SMA blood flow velocity. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2006 Mar; 7(2):132-7.
Del Beccaro M, Jeffries H, Eisenberg M, Harry E. Computerized provider order entry implementation: no association with increased mortality rates in an intensive care unit. Pediatrics. 2006 Jul; 118(1):290-5.
Scanlon M, Mistry K, Jeffries H. Determining PICU Quality Indicators for Measuring PICU Safety. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007 Mar; 8(2):S3-S10.
Kronman M, Baden H, Jeffries H, Cohen G, Heath J, Zerr D. An investigation of Aspergillus cardiac surgical site infections in three pediatric patients. Am J Infect Control. 2007 Jun;35(5):332-7.
Baden H, Jeffries H, Cohen G. Cardiac ECMO. In: John's Hopkins Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery. McGraw Hill. November 2006.
Jeffries, H, Martin, L. Respiratory Physiology. In: Wheeler, D Shanley T, Wong H (eds.) Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence. Springer-Verlag. July 2007.
Del Beccaro M, Jeffries H. Emergency and critical care considerations. In: Lehmann C, Kim G, Johnson K (eds.) Pediatric Informatics: Computer Applications in Child Health. Springer Science and Business Media, Inc. 2007 (not yet in print).