Simply Sayin' Medical Jargon vs PedsGuide Usage & Stats

The award-winning Simply Sayin’™ app uses pictures, sounds and a family-friendly glossary of terms to facilitate clear conversations between the healthcare provider, child, and family. Used by Child Life Specialists in hospitals around the world, parents can also use this information to promote positive health care experiences for their children before heading to see the doctor. The medical jargon health care professionals use can be overwhelming to children, because they process information differently than adults. Simply Sayin’™ is a mobile resource to help medical professionals provide developmentally appropriate explanations of medical terminology and common procedures. This app reinforces teach back techniques that have become the standard of care. Features of Simply Sayin’™ include: - Alphabetized glossary of terms - Illustrations and photographs - Anatomical images that can be drawn on free hand to illustrate surgical procedures and medical conditions - Sound clips - Ability to switch between English and Spanish for all menus and content Simply Sayin’™ was developed by Certified Child Life Specialists at Phoenix Children's Hospital. Child Life Specialists help patients better understand and cope with their medical experiences. This app was jointly produced by Phoenix Children’s Hospital Child Life Department, the Patient and family Alumni League (PALs), and Valley Leadership of Phoenix, Ariz. About Phoenix Children’s Hospital Phoenix Children’s Hospital, ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals, is Arizona’s only licensed children’s hospital, providing world-class inpatient, outpatient, trauma, emergency and urgent care to children and families in Arizona and throughout the Southwest. As one of the largest children’s hospitals in the country with 465 licensed beds, Phoenix Children’s provides care across more than 65 pediatric specialties. The hospital is poised for continued growth in quality patient care, research and medical education. For more information about the hospital, visit www.phoenixchildrens.com. About PALs The Patient and family Alumni Leadership (PALs) group is philanthropic team of former patients (or family members of former patients) who give back to Phoenix Children’s Hospital, with the goal of enriching the environment and experience for patients and families. About Valley Leadership Valley Leadership is a nonprofit, leadership development organization with the mission to enhance the abilities of individuals to serve and strengthen our communities. Established in 1978, Valley Leadership has been cultivating passionate and engaged leaders in our community for 30 years. Valley Leadership: Connecting…Learning…Leading. About MediaKube LLC MediaKube is an award-winning developer of mobile apps and other creative digital media. MediaKube helps companies of all sizes use technology to communicate effectively with their target audience.

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PedsGuide

In our commitment to creating a world of well-being for all children, Children’s Mercy Kansas City has created PedsGuide as a means for evidence-based pediatric clinical support guidelines to be available to health care providers. PedsGuide is a multi-module pediatric clinical decision support tool intended for use only by professional health care providers and emergency personnel for informational and educational purposes. *Each module provides users with a step-by-step interactive clinical decision support process, including reference material and/or contextually relevant information based on evidence-based practice and expert opinion routinely used in clinical practice, to assist in management of various acute illnesses in children. The modules have been designed and optimized by an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, pharmacists, medical librarians, Human Factors scientists, and innovations professionals. Human Factors methodology was leveraged to guide interfaces that provide rapid access to information and assessment tools, which facilitate an efficient aid for care management while decreasing cognitive load for the user. Additionally, for users who seek care for patients at The Children’s Mercy Hospital, PedsGuide features a quick-call feature to contact the Children’s Mercy Contact Center and Critical Care Transport Team in our service area. *While PedsGuide is a helpful tool, it is not intended to replace the independent judgment and evaluation of health care providers and emergency personnel. Healthcare providers and emergency personnel should not rely primarily on the tool to make a clinical diagnosis or treatment decision. Children's Mercy is not responsible for the correctness of any action you take based upon your use of PedsGuide. Resuscitation features: -Interactive flow algorithms to support advanced pediatric emergencies -Weight and age-based tools for pediatric resuscitation, emergent medication dosing, cardiovascular drip calculation, rapid sequence intubation, acute burn assessment and fluid resuscitation guidelines, Glascow scoring, and much more! Febrile Infant features: -Evaluation and recommendation algorithms based on research and expert opinion for managing febrile infants less than 90 days old -Easy-to-use checklists for entering basic clinical and medical history information to assess a patient’s risk of severe illness -Visual aids that provide users an estimation of risk for severe illness Asthma features: -Management tools to assist health care providers providing care for acute asthma exacerbation for children 2 years and older -Nationally recognized scoring systems -Hour by hour, easy to follow decision support Diabetes and DKA features: -DKA diagnosis and initial management recommendations -Weight and age-based tools for IVF and insulin drip titration using a two-bag system during DKA management -Routine (non-DKA) diabetes management algorithms and insulin dose calculation guidelines BRUE features: -Transformed algorithm for Brief Resolved Unexplained Event assessment and treatment guidelines Atopic Dermatitis and Infected Atopic Dermatitis Coming Soon -Assessment and treatment guidelines Stay tuned as we have multiple new modules in development!