Because of longstanding shortages of pediatric mental health clinicians and inpatient psychiatric hospital beds, many children have unmet mental health needs. Some of these children seek safety-net care in children’s hospitals and emergency departments (EDs) for mental health crise...

Hospital readmission rates are widely used as a quality measure for hospitalized patients. Hospital readmission gained attention largely from concerns about the quality of discharge care, including those patients discharged before they were adequately prepared to leave the hospital...

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the content of parental discussions with young adolescents about reproductive health topics. We sought to characterize the messages mothers share about contraception and condoms. DESIGN: Recruitment occurred between January 2012 and May 2013....

OBJECTIVE: Examine the adoption and presence of preterm, neuro-centric care practices across neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). STUDY DESIGN: Statewide, cross-sectional survey of California NICUs. Data were collected surrounding the timing of adoption and presence of delivery ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of limited health literacy in parents of infants born ≤32 and 0/7 weeks and if health literacy changes during hospitalization. STUDY DESIGN: Multi-site, prospective cohort study measuring health literacy using the Parent Health Literacy Activ...

Families' access to local food-insecurity (FI) resources differs. This study examines how health system and public data may be combined to identify limitations in community resources designed to address FI. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record (E...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of obstetric delivery volume, high-risk condition volume, and their combined effect on maternal outcomes. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study examined more than 10 million deliveries in three states from 1995 to 2009 using linked birth-hospit...

Behavioral health issues are common in hospitalized children. One PolicyLab study found that although up to half of children hospitalized for a physical health condition have behavioral health needs or psychological distress during their stay, they may not regularly receive treatme...

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Intrauterine device (IUD) utilization in the United States is low among adolescent and young adult women. Longer procedure duration has been proposed as one potential barrier to IUD insertion in this population. We hypothesized that procedure duration would be long...

OBJECTIVE: To provide population-based estimates of the hospital-related costs of maternal and newborn care, and how these vary by gestational age and birth weight. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 2009-2011 California in-hospital deliveries at nonfederal hos...