SAEMF Emerging Infectious Disease and Preparedness Grant - $49,994
"Delayed Diagnosis of Pediatric CNS Infections: Insights from the PECARN Registry"
Delays in the timely recognition and treatment of pediatric Central Nervous System infection (CNSi) may lead to long-term neurologic disabilities, and infrequently, mortality. In this study, we will identify predictors of delayed diagnosis of Central Nervous System (CNS) infections at emergency department presentation using a large, granular multicenter dataset and validated tools to identify and categorize diagnostic errors. This foundational work will support future work developing electronic health record-based tools to improve the early diagnosis of these infections in EDs, thus reducing the substantial neurologic morbidity that stems from these conditions.
Recipient(s)
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Kaileen Jafari, MD
University of Washington
"Delayed Diagnosis of Pediatric CNS Infections: Insights from the PECARN Registry"
Kaileen Jafari, MD, is an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is a health services researcher focused on improving the quality of pediatric emergency care.
Dr. Jafari’s work examines structural and systems-level factors that drive variation in care, with a particular emphasis on reducing diagnostic errors and improving the timely, accurate identification of serious infections in children. She serves as a site co-investigator for the Seattle–Texas–Los Angeles node of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.
She earned her medical degree from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, completed residency at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at Columbia University, and completed fellowship training at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow.