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Participating in Your Child’s Health Care
Children's Mercy wants you and your child to be active members of the health care team. It is our duty to help you get the health information you need and to understand it.
Healing From Delivery
Just as it takes months to grow a baby, it takes months to recover and heal from pregnancy, labor and delivery, which are a lot of work for a woman's body. We don't want you to be scared or confused...
Blood and Marrow Transplant: What to Expect
Your team at Children’s Mercy is here to help you and your family every step of the way through a blood or marrow transplant (BMT). Learn more about what to expect before, during and after the procedure.
Hematology, Oncology and BMT Family Care Team
At Children’s Mercy, your child’s care involves so much more than medical treatment. Our Family Care Team looks at your child’s unique needs—physical, developmental, emotional, educational and...
Uveitis
What is uveitis? Inflammation of the inside of the eyes is called uveitis. Some children who have arthritis also get inflammation in their eyes. Some children get inflammation in their eyes but...
Constipation in Kids: Your Family's Guide to Getting "Unstuck"
Most childhood constipation is functional constipation, which means there’s no underlying disease or problems. Some kids with functional constipation need help getting "unstuck."...
Healthy Home Assessment Reports
If you received a Healthy Home Assessment Advisory Plan, here are the additional pages that support the results of your assessment: Scope of Environmental Health Assessment Understanding Your Home...
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Educational objectives: Learn to take history and carry out physical examination, including neurologic examination, on infants and children focusing on conditions amenable to neurosurgical care. Understand...
Hirschsprung Disease: Taitum's Story
Meet Taitum Meet Taitum photo Ariel Ellis had a normal pregnancy and delivery in a Springfield, Mo., hospital. But shortly after giving birth on Oct. 18, 2018, her newborn son’s health quickly declined.
Sports Nutrition: Fueling for Peak Performance
Your Children's Mercy nutritionist will help you maintain a healthy weight, prevent injury and effectively fuel for everyday practice and game day.
Dr. Warady Receives Nearly $5.8 Million Award for the “Chronic Kidney Disease in Children” Study
Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) face increased health risks beyond their primary kidney disorder. CKiD V continues the observational CKiD study that began in 2003 and that follows 1,100 children...
Refer a patient to Home Care
Children's Mercy Home Care is the only full-service pediatric home-health agency in the region. Our team provides continuity of care following inpatient stays and often instead of hospitalization. Home...
Community Acquired Pneumonia
Clinical Pathways promote evidence based, safe, and high-value care for patients by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...
Gastroenteritis (acute) Clinical Pathway
Clinical Pathways promote evidence based, safe, and high-value care for patients by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...
Starting Doses of Opioids
Titrate dose and frequency to maintain adequate symptom control. Dose and frequency increases may need to be very aggressive during the active dying process. There is no absolute maximum dose for opioid...
End of Life Resources and Support
When a child dies booklet Guides for parents: End of life for your child: Preparing, Part 1 End of life for your child: What to expect, Part 2 Understanding nutritional needs These pathways do not establish...
Outbreaks, Alerts and Hot Topics: Measles and (Immune) Memory Loss
Column Author: Chris Day, MD | Pediatric Infectious Diseases; Director, Transplant Infectious Disease Services; Medical Director, Travel Medicine; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics...
4 things to know about seasonal allergies
We may still be seeing some chilly days, but allergies are in full effect. Chances are, if you’re not sneezing and itching, someone in your family is. Despite how common seasonal allergies are, many people...
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Abstract: Hemoglobin A1c Trajectories Following Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) in a Cohort of Children from Canada and the U.S.
Gonzalo Dominguez Menendez1, Melissa Braschel1, Kelsey Panfil2, Crystal Ng1, Brent Lockee2, Ryan Mcdonough2, Jeffrey Bone1, Mark Clements2, Shazhan Amed1 1BC Children’s Hospital, Pediatric...