Results for Antibiotic Prescribing

Learn about the research projects supported by CPCE/PolicyLab Pilot Grants and how they seek to drive change in policy and practice.

In the News this week features a Humanitarian Award, along with research on psychosis, antibiotics continuous glucose monitoring and DNA methylation.

In this week’s news roundup, our researchers approach challenges in children’s health research from a new lens.

In this week’s news roundup, we share four examples of researchers determined to find better ways to approach pediatric health challenges.

Our latest Snapshot Science shares new insights from CPCE researchers on current epidemic of kidney stones in children.

This week in the news, research from the Cardiac Center and the Division of Urology make headlines for children's health.

Data from new study helps clinicians choose the best antibiotic for a child with an acute respiratory tract infection.

CHOP Researchers Find Outcomes Are Similar, but Broader-spectrum Antibiotics Have Higher Risk of Adverse Effects

The Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is ushering in the fall with a call for applications to its Pilot Grant Program. The program aims to support CHOP investigators who are interested in conducting studies designed to gather evidence about novel strategies that could shift current research or a clinical practice paradigm.

Sometimes half is better than whole. That's the idea behind a new multicenter study that Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is participating in to compare a five-day (short) course of antibiotic therapy with a 10-day (standard) course of therapy to treat community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children. Pneumonia is a lung infection that is the leading infectious cause of death in children