Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network
Executive Council
Rajendu Srivastava, MD, MPH, ChairChristopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH, Past Chair
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc
Ron Keren, MD, MPH
Sanjay Mahant, MD, MSc
Samir Shah, MD, MSCE
Tamara Simon, MD, MSPH
Joel Tieder, MD, MPH
Karen Wilson, MD, MPH
Over the past several years, momentum to develop a PRIS network to collaboratively study key questions in inpatient pediatrics has steadily mounted. We now have over 200 hospitalists from 80 centers participating in the network, representing centers from the United States and Canada. In 2009, the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Strategic Roundtable led to a series of discussion and outline for a plan how PRIS would achieve extramural funding to conduct studies that address clinically relevant questions germane to inpatient pediatrics. PRIS formed a new Executive Council of hospitalist-investigators from core PRIS sites (in addition to the existing centers) and worked through issues pertaining to mission, vision, values, governance, funding strategies and early discussion of particular questions that may be studied.
PRIS remains an independent entity founded through a collaborative effort of three organizations: the Society for Hospital Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Academic Pediatric Association. Core network management support has been generously provided by the Academic Pediatric Association (APA). The APA has remained a key organization that has helped PRIS in the redesign and will continue to work with PRIS in the execution of the network goals. The mission of PRIS is to improve the health of and healthcare delivery to hospitalized children and their families. This will be done so by conducting larger, multi-institutional studies of inpatient pediatric care inadequately addressed to date through smaller studies and/or single site studies.
If you are interested in being a part of this network, please email Raj Srivastava
at raj.srivastava@hsc.utah.edu and Nui Dhepyasuwan at nui@academicpeds.org and also fill out the online
enrollment survey.
PRIS
June 2010 Newsletter Article
PRIS is an open pediatric hospitalist network that was formed in 2001 with joint sponsorship of the Academic Pediatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Hospital Medicine. Over the past several years, momentum to develop a PRIS network to collaboratively study key questions in inpatient pediatrics has steadily mounted. We now have over 200 hospitalists from 80 centers participating in the network, representing centers from the United States and Canada.
In 2009, the Strategic Roundtable of Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine was convened with 22 national leaders from across the U.S. and Canada. From that meeting, it was determined that PRIS undergo a redesign (which is ongoing) and involves several critical steps. Individual pediatric hospitalist medicine investigators with a proven track record of publications and funding have formed a new Executive Council within PRIS. Their charge is to lead PRIS into a new arena of stable infrastructure funding, growing the membership and helping sites establish their capacity to conduct high quality studies, oversee the conduct of the next series of studies that are transformative to the field of inpatient pediatrics, and mentor the next generation of hospitalist investigators to continue the work of PRIS.
During this redesign, in addition to developing ongoing support from the three national organizations, PRIS has partnered with the Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) and received funding for both infrastructure and specific projects. CHCA is a business alliance of 42 children's hospitals. The initial study is a prioritization project that will help guide PRIS on prioritizing future studies in the field of pediatric hospital medicine. This project seeks to identify conditions that are prevalent, costly to the healthcare system, and demonstrate high inter-hospital variation in resource utilization, which signals either lack of high quality data upon which to base medical decisions, and/or an opportunity to standardize care across hospitals. This project will establish a priority list, focus on the highest ranking conditions that demonstrate the most variation of care, at a high cost/frequency, and that has actionable evidence that if followed in the inpatient setting, would lead to a decrease in unnecessary variation with no adverse or even superior patient outcomes. This project is being conducted within both academic and community settings, in order to have broad reaching effects, as most children are hospitalized in community hospitals.
In addition to securing funding for PRIS, the Executive Council met in February (in Salt Lake City) and March (in Philadelphia) to work on the following Network related issues: governance, strategic planning, mechanism for new projects and new members among many other things.
PRIS will present details on how the redesign is progressing and next steps for the Network at the summer Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine meeting in Minneapolis where the APA, AAP and SHM will attend, as well as several hundred practicing pediatric hospitalists across the U.S. and Canada.
Members of the Executive Council include Rajendu Srivastava, Chair, Christopher P. Landrigan, Past Chair, Patrick Conway, Ron Keren, Sanjay Mahant, Samir Shah, Tamara Simon, Joel Tieder, Karen Wilson.
If you are interested in being a part of this network, please email Raj Srivastava at raj.srivastava@hsc.utah.edu and Nui Dhepyasuwan at nui@academicpeds.org.
