Emergency departments in the highest quartile of pediatric readiness based on  have lower death rates for children with serious injury or illness than EDs in the lowest quartile, according to a reported last week in JAMA Network Open. The  include specifications for physician and nurse certification, patient assessment, triage, medication administration, and trauma resuscitation and stabilization. 

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