Scholarly works by Children's Mercy Kansas City's doctors, nurses, researchers, and other staff.
Affiliation to Children's Mercy Hospital listed as of time of publication.
Works from 2010
Basal insulin requirements on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion during the first 12 months after diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus., Neesha Ramchandani, Mary Kristine Ellis, Shobhit Jain, Sonal Bhandari, Henry Anhalt, Noel K. Maclaren, and Svetlana Ten (Article)
Benchmarks for the emergency department care of children with asthma, bronchiolitis, and croup., Jane Knapp, Matthew Hall, and Vidya Sharma (Article)
Children's hospitals do not acutely respond to high occupancy, Evan S. Fieldston, Matthew Hall, Marion R. Sills, Anthony D. Slonim, Angela L. Myers, Courtney Cannon, Susmita Pati, and Samir S. Shah (Article)
Electronic momentary assessment of weather changes as a trigger of headaches in children., Mark Connelly, Todd Miller, Gerry Gerry, and Jennifer Bickel (Article)
Lifetime cardiovascular risk of childhood obesity., Geetha Raghuveer (Article)
Physiologic predictors of postoperative abscess in children with perforated appendicitis: subset analysis from a prospective randomized trial., Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Susan W. Sharp, Charles L. Snyder, G W. Holcomb III, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Disparity in limb-salvage surgery among sarcoma patients., Stephanie Downing, Nita Ahuja, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, David Chang, and Wayne A. Frederick (Article)
Insurance status is a potent predictor of outcomes in both blunt and penetrating trauma., Wendy R. Greene, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Umar Bowers, Adil H. Haider, Thomas A. Mellman, Edward E. Cornwell, Suryanarayana M. Siram, and David C. Chang (Article)
Role of nursing unit factors on performance of phlebotomy and subsequent blood culture contamination rates., Gina Weddle, Mary Anne Jackson, Karen Cox, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Article)
Simplifying physiologic injury severity measurement for predicting trauma outcomes., Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Joseph G. Crompton, David T. Efron, Elliott R. Haut, David C. Chang, Edward E. Cornwell, Susan P. Baker, and Adil H. Haider (Article)
Ureteral trauma: patterns and mechanisms of injury of an uncommon condition., Suryanarayana M. Siram, Sonja Z. Gerald, Wendy R. Greene, Kakra Hughes, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Kristin Chrouser, Edward E. Cornwell, and David C. Chang (Article)
Controversies in Vaccine Mandates, John D. Lantos, Mary Anne Jackson, Douglas J. Opel, Edgar K. Marcuse, Angela L. Myers, and Beverly L. Connelly (Article)
Treatment of adolescent gynecomastia., Carrie A. Laituri, Carissa L. Garey, Daniel J. Ostlie, Shawn D. St Peter, George K. Gittes, and Charles L. Snyder (Article)
Influence of histamine receptor antagonists on the outcome of perforated appendicitis: analysis from a prospective trial., Shawn D. St Peter, Susan W. Sharp, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Intraoperative hyperglycemia and postoperative bacteremia in the pediatric cardiac surgery patient., James E. O'Brien, Jennifer A. Marshall, Marcy L. Tarrants, Richard Stroup, and Gary K. Lofland (Article)
Laparoscopic gastric transposition with cervical esophagogastric anastomosis for long gap pure esophageal atresia., Shawn D. St Peter and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Partial and transitional atrioventricular septal defect outcomes., L LuAnn Minich, Andrew M. Atz, Steven D. Colan, Lynn A. Sleeper, Seema Mital, James Jaggers, Renee Margossian, Ashwin Prakash, Jennifer S. Li, Meryl S. Cohen, Ronald V. Lacro, Gloria L. Klein, John A. Hawkins, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Predictors for survival of penetrating trauma using emergency department thoracotomy in an urban trauma center: the Cardiac Instability Score., Suryanarayana Siram, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Shaneeta M. Johnson, Amal L. Khoury, Patricia M. White, David C. Chang, Wendy R. Greene, and Wayne A. Frederick (Article)
Strategies for improving asthma outcomes: a case-based review of successes and pitfalls., Dennis Williams, Jay M. Portnoy, and Karen Meyerson (Article)
Accuracy of computed tomography in predicting appendiceal perforation., Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Susan W. Sharp, Charles L. Snyder, Douglas C. Rivard, Brent Cully, Ronald J. Sharp, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
A Practical Approach to Prospective Randomized Trials, Pablo Aguayo and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
A review of venovenous and venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in neonates and children., S J. Keckler, C A. Laituri, D J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Clinico-morphological correlations in the categorization of holes between the ventricles., Brad A. Friedman, Anthony Hlavacek, Karen Chessa, Girish S. Shirali, Eowyn Corcrain, Diane Spicer, Robert H. Anderson, and Sinai Zyblewski (Article)
Evaluating children with otitis media for bacteremia or urinary tract infection., Daniel Yawman, Patrick Mahar, Aaron Blumkin, and Gregory P. Conners (Article)
Hereditary 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D-resistant rickets with alopecia resulting from a novel missense mutation in the DNA-binding domain of the vitamin D receptor., Peter J. Malloy, Jining Wang, Tarak Srivastava, and David Feldman (Article)
Initial laparoscopic appendectomy versus initial nonoperative management and interval appendectomy for perforated appendicitis with abscess: a prospective, randomized trial., Shawn D. St Peter, Pablo Aguayo, Jason D. Fraser, Scott J. Keckler, Susan W. Sharp, Charles M. Leys, J Patrick Murphy, Charles L. Snyder, Ronald J. Sharp, Walter S. Andrews, G W. Holcomb III, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Motorcycle helmets save lives, but not limbs: a National Trauma Data Bank analysis of functional outcomes after motorcycle crash., Joseph G. Crompton, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Kent A. Stevens, David T. Efron, Elliott R. Haut, and Adil H. Haider (Article)
Practice parameter: Evaluation of the child with microcephaly (AN EVIDENCE-BASED REVIEW): Report of the quality standards subcommittee of the american academy of neurology and the practice committee of the child neurology society, W. D. Graf, Jean-Baptist LePichon, Douglas C. Bittel, Ahmed Abdelmoity, and S. Yu (Response or Comment)
Scavenger receptor A1 is required for sensing HCMV by endosomal TLR-3/-9 in monocytic THP-1 cells., Kok-Hooi Yew, Bonnie Carsten, and Christopher J. Harrison (Article)
Single Site Laparoscopy in Children, Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
The Utility of Nasogastric Decompression After Intestinal Surgery in Children, Daniel J. Ostlie and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Variations in carotid artery intima-media thickness during the cardiac cycle in children., Spencer Menees, Danna Zhang, Joseph Le, Jie Chen, and Geetha Raghuveer (Article)
"Vascular age" is advanced in children with atherosclerosis-promoting risk factors., Joseph Le, Danna Zhang, Spencer Menees, Jie Chen, and Geetha Raghuveer (Article)
Works from 2009
Addition of levalbuterol to a pediatric emergency department automated medication management system does not increase its use., Gregory P. Conners, Daniel P. Hays, Thomas Richardson, and Frank L. Zwemer (Article)
Effect of donor ethnicity on kidney survival in different recipient pairs: an analysis of the OPTN/UNOS database., C O. Callender, W S. Cherikh, P Traverso, A Hernandez, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, and D Chang (Article)
Genetic commonality of macrolide-resistant group A beta hemolytic streptococcus pharyngeal strains, Angela Myers, Mary Anne Jackson, Rangaraj Selvarangan, Richard V. Goering, and Christopher J. Harrison (Article)
Stomal complications in the newborn with necrotizing enterocolitis., Pablo Aguayo, Jason D. Fraser, Susan Sharp, Shawn D. St Peter, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Laparoscopic removal of a gastric trichobezoar in a pediatric patient., Jason D. Fraser, Charles M. Leys, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Chromosomal anomalies influence parental treatment decisions in relation to prenatally diagnosed congenital heart disease., Sinai C. Zyblewski, Elizabeth G. Hill, Girish S. Shirali, Andrew Atz, Geoffrey Forbus, Javier Gonzalez, and Anthony Hlavacek (Article)
Diminishing role of contrast enema in simple meconium ileus., Daniel R. Copeland, Shawn D. St Peter, Susan W. Sharp, Saleem Islam, Alex Cuenca, Joshua S. Tolleson, Melvin S. Dassinger, Danny C. Little, Richard J. Jackson, Evan R. Kokoska, and Samuel D. Smith (Article)
Home and school environmental assessment and remediation., Thomas A Lupoli, Christina E Ciaccio, and Jay M Portnoy (Article)
Innovation in three-dimensional echocardiography and cardiac computed tomographic angiography., Anthony M. Hlavacek, G Hamilton Baker, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Parent- versus child-reported functional health status after the Fontan procedure., Linda M. Lambert, L LuAnn Minich, Jane W. Newburger, Minmin Lu, Victoria L. Pemberton, Ellen A. McGrath, Andrew M. Atz, Mingfen Xu, Elizabeth Radojewski, Darlene Servedio, Brian W. McCrindle, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Exercise-induced asthma: critical analysis of the protective role of montelukast., Terrence W. Carver (Article)
Adverse reactions to vaccines., John M. Kelso, James T. Li, Richard A. Nicklas, Joann Blessing-Moore, Linda Cox, David M. Lang, John Oppenheimer, Jay M. Portnoy, Christopher Randolph, Diane E. Schuller, Sheldon L. Spector, Stephen Tilles, Dana Wallace, Zuhair K. Ballas, James R. Baker, Joseph A. Bellanti, Daniel Ein, Leslie C. Grammer, Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters, and Joint Task Forcce on Practice Parameters for Allergy & Immunology (Article)
Innate immunity as a key element in host defense against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus., Christopher J. Harrison (Article)
Massive bilateral nephromegaly in acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a case report., Pablo Aguayo, Jason D. Fraser, Shawn D. St Peter, T Spilde, John Gatti, Charles L. Snyder, and D J. Ostlie (Article)
The safety of laparoscopy in pediatric patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunts., Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Susan W. Sharp, G W. Holcomb III, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of reformulated azelastine nasal spray in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis., Jonathan A. Bernstein, Bruce Prenner, Berrylin J. Ferguson, Jay M. Portnoy, William J. Wheeler, and Harry J. Sacks (Article)
The role of laparoscopy in the management of malrotation., Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Susan W. Sharp, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Adrenocortical adenoma expressing glucocorticoid in an 8-month-old female., E Kim, Pablo Aguayo, Shawn D. St Peter, and G W. Holcomb III (Article)
Atrial tachyarrhythmias in neonatal enterovirus myocarditis., Kathleen E. Simpson, Eddie Hulse, and Karina Carlson (Article)
Comparison of echocardiographic and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging measurements of functional single ventricular volumes, mass, and ejection fraction (from the Pediatric Heart Network Fontan Cross-Sectional Study)., Renee Margossian, Marcy L. Schwartz, Ashwin Prakash, Lisa Wruck, Steven D. Colan, Andrew M. Atz, Timothy J. Bradley, Mark A. Fogel, Lynne M. Hurwitz, Edward Marcus, Andrew J. Powell, Beth F. Printz, Michael D. Puchalski, Jack Rychik, Girish S. Shirali, Richard Williams, Shi-Joon Yoo, Tal Geva, and Pediatric Heart Network Investigators (Article)
Females have fewer complications and lower mortality following trauma than similarly injured males: a risk adjusted analysis of adults in the National Trauma Data Bank., Adil H. Haider, Joseph G. Crompton, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Kent A. Stevens, David T. Efron, Alicia N. Kieninger, David C. Chang, Edward E. Cornwell, and Elliott R. Haut (Article)
Functional state following the Fontan procedure., Ismee A. Williams, Lynn A. Sleeper, Steven D. Colan, Minmin Lu, Elizabeth A. Stephenson, Jane W. Newburger, Welton M. Gersony, Meryl S. Cohen, James F. Cnota, Andrew M. Atz, Richard V. Williams, Renee Margossian, Andrew J. Powell, Mario P. Stylianou, Daphne T. Hsu, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Infarction of an epiploic appendage in a pediatric patient., Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Charles M. Leys, Shawn D. St Peter, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Laparoscopic management of intussusception in pediatric patients., Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Brian Ho, Susan W. Sharp, Daniel J. Ostlie, G W. Holcomb III, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Short-term natural history of the standard approaches for gastrostomy tube placement in the pediatric patient., Jason D. Fraser, Todd A. Ponsky, Pablo Aguayo, Scott Boulanger, Robert Parry, Neil Nixdorf, Jennifer DiLuciano, Patti Smith, Susan W. Sharp, G W. Holcomb III, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Low-cost interventions improve indoor air quality and children's health., Linda Johnson, Christina Ciaccio, Charles S. Barnes, Kevin Kennedy, Erika Forrest, Luke Gard, Freddy Pacheco, Paul Dowling, and Jay M. Portnoy (Article)
The influence of ventricular morphology and coronary artery dominance and morphology on early mortality in patients with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum, Gary K. Lofland, James E. O'Brien, Jennifer A. Swihart, Richard Stroup, and Stephen Kaine (Article)
Urine calcium/citrate ratio in children with hypercalciuric stones., Tarak Srivastava, Mark J. Winston, Ari Auron, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Complications of hypercalciuria., Andrew Schwaderer and Tarak Srivastava (Article)
Contemporary practice patterns in the surgical management of Hirschsprung's disease., Scott J. Keckler, Jeannie C. Yang, Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Daniel J. Ostlie, G W. Holcomb III, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Penetrating missile-type head injury from a defective badminton racquet., Dante Pappano, Elizabeth Murray, Lynn Babcock Cimpello, and Gregory P. Conners (Article)
Perforated Meckel's diverticulum in a micropremature infant and review of the literature., Pablo Aguayo, Jason D. Fraser, Shawn D. St Peter, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Vomiting and apparent life-threatening event., Brian Wohlwend, Laura Fitzmaurice, and Lisa Lowe (Article)
Associated symptoms in the ten days before diagnosis of Kawasaki disease., Annette L. Baker, Minmin Lu, L LuAnn Minich, Andrew M. Atz, Gloria L. Klein, Rosalind Korsin, Linda Lambert, Jennifer S. Li, Wilbert Mason, Elizabeth Radojewski, Victoria L. Vetter, Jane W. Newburger, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Diagnosis and management of hypercalciuria in children., Tarak Srivastava and Andrew Schwaderer (Article)
Laparoscopic duodenojejunostomy for superior mesenteric artery syndrome., Jason D. Fraser, Shawn D. St Peter, Jenevieve H. Hughes, and James M. Swain (Article)
Laparoscopic fundoplication after previous open abdominal operations in infants and children., Katherine A. Barsness, Shawn D. St Peter, G W. Holcomb III, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Timothy D. Kane (Article)
Laparoscopic treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts in children., Suzanne M. Yoder, Steven Rothenberg, Kuojen Tsao, Mark L. Wulkan, Todd A. Ponsky, Shawn D. St Peter, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Timothy D. Kane (Article)
Thoracoscopy in children: is a chest tube necessary?, Todd A. Ponsky, Steven S. Rothenberg, KuoJen Tsao, Daniel J. Ostlie, Shawn D. St Peter, and G W. Holcomb III (Article)
Universal screening for extracardiac abnormalities in neonates with congenital heart disease., Javier H. Gonzalez, Girish S. Shirali, Andrew M. Atz, Sarah N. Taylor, Geoffrey A. Forbus, Sinai C. Zyblewski, and Anthony M. Hlavacek (Article)
Usefulness of live three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in a congenital heart disease center., G Hamilton Baker, Girish S. Shirali, Jeremy M. Ringewald, Tain Yen Hsia, and Varsha Bandisode (Article)
Asthma control is enhanced when health plans and providers cooperate., Candace Ramos, Christina Ciaccio, and Jay M. Portnoy (Article)
Evaluation of three analyte-specific reagents for detection and typing of herpes simplex virus in cerebrospinal fluid, Suresh B. Selvaraju, Michelle Wurst, Rebecca T. Horvat, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Article)
Reversal of hypercalcemic acute kidney injury by treatment with intravenous bisphosphonates., Ari Auron, Leyat Tal, Tarak Srivastava, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Susceptibilities of Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, including serotype 19A, and Moraxella catarrhalis paediatric isolates from 2005 to 2007 to commonly used antibiotics, Christopher J. Harrison, Charles Woods, Gordon Stout, Brittanie Martin, and Rangaraj Selvarangan (Article)
Atorvastatin may have no effect on acute phase reaction in children after intravenous bisphosphonate infusion., Tarak Srivastava, Connie J. Haney, and Uri S. Alon (Article)
Review of the evidence on the management of blunt renal trauma in pediatric patients., Jason D. Fraser, Pablo Aguayo, Daniel J. Ostlie, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the anterior tibial artery treated with ultrasound-guided thrombin injection in a pediatric patient., Jason D. Fraser, Brent Cully, Douglas C. Rivard, Charles M. Leys, G W. Holcomb III, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Differences between pediatric registered nurses' perception of organizational support, intent to stay, workload, and overall satisfaction, and years employed as a nurse in magnet and non-magnet pediatric hospitals: implications for administrators., Susan R. Lacey, Susan Teasley, and Karen S. Cox (Article)
Efficiency of CYP2C9 genetic test representation for automated pharmacogenetic decision support., Vikrant G Deshmukh, Mark A Hoffman, Catherine Arnoldi, Bruce E Bray, and Joyce A Mitchell (Article)
Impact of standardization of creatinine methodology on the assessment of glomerular filtration rate in children., Tarak Srivastava, Uri S. Alon, Randah Althahabi, and Uttam Garg (Article)
Intussusception in the adult: an unsuspected case of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome with review of the literature., Jason D. Fraser, Steven E. Briggs, Shawn D. St Peter, Giovanni De Petris, and Jacques Heppell (Article)
Rationale and design of a trial of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in infants with single ventricle., Daphne T. Hsu, Seema Mital, Chitra Ravishankar, Renee Margossian, Jennifer S. Li, Lynn A. Sleeper, Richard V. Williams, Jami C. Levine, Brian W. McCrindle, Andrew M. Atz, Darlene Servedio, Lynn Mahony, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators, and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Sequential segmental analysis., Robert H. Anderson and Girish S. Shirali (Article)
Thoracoscopic decortication vs tube thoracostomy with fibrinolysis for empyema in children: a prospective, randomized trial., Shawn D. St Peter, Kuojen Tsao, Troy L. Spilde, Scott J. Keckler, Christopher J. Harrison, Mary Anne Jackson, Susan W. Sharp, Walter S. Andrews, Douglas C. Rivard, Frank P. Morello, G W. Holcomb III, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Update on the safety of long-acting beta-agonists in combination with inhaled corticosteroids for the treatment of asthma., Harold S. Nelson, Warner Carr, Robert Nathan, and Jay M. Portnoy (Article)
Works from 2008
An evidence-based definition for perforated appendicitis derived from a prospective randomized trial., Shawn D. St Peter, Susan W. Sharp, G W. Holcomb III, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Assessment and management of the failing heart in children., Beth D. Kaufman, Robert E. Shaddy, Girish S. Shirali, Ronn Tanel, and Jeffrey A. Towbin (Article)
Emergency department waiting room stress: can music or aromatherapy improve anxiety scores?, Lydia Holm and Laura Fitzmaurice (Article)
Natural history of nonoperative management for grade 4 and 5 liver and spleen injuries in children., Jeannie C. Yang, Susan W. Sharp, Daniel J. Ostlie, G W. Holcomb III, and Shawn D. St Peter (Article)
Quality of care for common pediatric respiratory illnesses in United States emergency departments: analysis of 2005 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Data., Jane F. Knapp, Stephen D. Simon, and Vidya Sharma (Article)
New types of immunotherapy in children., Noel Rodríguez-Pérez, Martin Penagos, and Jay M. Portnoy (Article)
Pediatric athletic asthmatics., Terrence W. Carver (Article)
Predictors of emesis and time to goal intake after pyloromyotomy: analysis from a prospective trial., Shawn D. St Peter, Kuojen Tsao, Susan W. Sharp, G W. Holcomb III, and Daniel J. Ostlie (Article)
Sources of knowledge transfer among primary care pediatric health care providers., Dante Pappano, Gregory P. Conners, Scott McIntosh, Sharon Humiston, and Domenick Roma (Article)
Strategies for primary prevention of atopy in children., Christina E. Ciaccio and Jay M. Portnoy (Article)
Comparison of BD Directigen™ EZ RSV and Binax NOW® RSV tests for rapid detection of respiratory syncytial virus from nasopharyngeal aspirates in a pediatric population, Rangaraj Selvarangan, David Abel, and Marilyn Hamilton (Article)
