Suni Kaiser, MD, MSc
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

I am currently supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and private foundations. I also help steer the AAP's Value in Inpatient Pediatrics Network and the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings Network.

• Child Opportunity Index and Rehospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions at US Children's Hospitals.
  Hospital pediatrics 2023 Parikh K, Lopez MA, Hall M, Bettenhausen J, Sills MR, Hoffmann J, Morse R, Shah SS, Noelke C, Kaiser SV
• Barriers and Facilitators of High-Efficiency Clinical Pathway Implementation in Community Hospitals.
  Hospital pediatrics 2023 Outram SM, Rooholamini SN, Desai M, Edwards Y, Ja C, Morton K, Vaughan JH, Shaw JS, Gonzales R, Kaiser SV
• Pediatric Respiratory Illnesses: An Update on Achievable Benchmarks of Care.
  Pediatrics 2023 Reyes MA, Etinger V, Hronek C, Hall M, Davidson A, Mangione-Smith R, Kaiser SV, Parikh K
• Characterization of Birth Hospitalizations in the United States.
  Hospital pediatrics 2023 Ding L, Rodean J, Leyenaar JK, Coon ER, Mahant S, Gill PJ, Cabana MD, Kaiser SV
• Neighborhood Child Opportunity and Emergency Department Utilization.
  Pediatrics 2022 Kaiser SV, Hall M, Bettenhausen JL, Sills MR, Hoffmann JA, Noelke C, Morse RB, Lopez MA, Parikh K
• HEROIC Trials to Answer Pragmatic Questions for Hospitalized Children.
  Hospital pediatrics 2022 Coon ER, Bonafide C, Cohen E, Heath A, McDaniel CE, Schroeder AR, Kaiser SV
• Child Opportunity Index and Changes in Pediatric Acute Care Utilization in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Pediatrics 2022 Fritz CQ, Fleegler EW, DeSouza H, Richardson T, Kaiser SV, Sills MR, Cooper JN, Parikh K, Puls HT, DeLaroche AM, Hogan AH, Pantell MS, Kornblith AE, Heller KR, Bigham MT, Goyal M
• Hospital's observed specific standard practice: A novel measure of variation in care for common inpatient pediatric conditions.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2022 Bakel LA, Richardson T, De Souza HG, Kaiser SV, Mahant S, Treasure JD, Waynik IY, Winer JC, Bajaj L
• Common Diagnoses and Costs in Pediatric Hospitalization in the US.
  JAMA pediatrics 2022 Kaiser SV, Rodean J, Coon ER, Mahant S, Gill PJ, Leyenaar JK
• Pediatric Hospital Medicine Needs More Randomized Controlled Trials.
  Hospital pediatrics 2022 Kaiser SV, Schroeder AR, Coon ER
• Effect of a Quality Improvement Bundle to Standardize the Use of Intravenous Fluids for Hospitalized Pediatric Patients: A Stepped-Wedge, Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA pediatrics 2022 Rooholamini SN, Jennings B, Zhou C, Kaiser SV, Garber MD, Tchou MJ, Ralston SL
• Quality and Safety in Hospital Pediatrics During COVID-19: A National Qualitative Study.
  Hospital pediatrics 2021 De Angulo NR, Penwill N, Pathak PR, Ja C, Elster MJ, Hochreiter D, Newton JM, Wilson KM, Kaiser SV
• Changes in pediatric hospital care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national qualitative study.
  BMC health services research 2021 Penwill NY, Roessler De Angulo N, Pathak PR, Ja C, Elster MJ, Hochreiter D, Newton JM, Wilson KM, Kaiser SV
• Strategies for sustaining high-quality pediatric asthma care in community hospitals.
  Health services research 2021 Jaladanki S, Schechter SB, Genies MC, Cabana MD, Rehm RS, Howell E, Kaiser SV
• Does being a coach benefit clinician-educators? A mixed methods study of faculty self-efficacy, job satisfaction and burnout.
  Perspectives on medical education 2021 Elster MJ, O'Sullivan PS, Muller-Juge V, Sheu L, Kaiser SV, Hauer KE
• Development of a Health Disparities Index: Proof of Concept with Chest Radiography in Asthma.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2021 Parikh K, Hall M, Kaiser SV, Hogan AH, Bettenhausen JL, Lopez MA, Sills MR
• Identifying Conditions With High Prevalence, Cost, and Variation in Cost in US Children's Hospitals.
  JAMA network open 2021 Gill PJ, Anwar MR, Thavam T, Hall M, Rodean J, Kaiser SV, Srivastava R, Keren R, Mahant S, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Setting (PRIS) Network
• Preventing COVID-19 Transmission in Education Settings.
  Pediatrics 2021 Kaiser SV, Watson A, Dogan B, Karmur A, Warren K, Wang P, Camano Sosa M, Olarte A, Dorsey S, Su M, Brown L, Sachdev D, Bardach NS
• Safety Events in Children's Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Hospital pediatrics 2021 Masonbrink AR, Harris M, Hall M, Kaiser S, Hogan AH, Parikh K, Clark NA, Rangel S
• Utilization and effects of mobile electronic clinical decision support on pediatric asthma care quality in the emergency department and inpatient setting.
  JAMIA open 2021 Kerns E, McCulloh R, Fouquet S, McDaniel C, Ken L, Liu P, Kaiser S
• Improving Isotonic Maintenance Intravenous Fluid Use at a Tertiary Children's Hospital.
  Hospital pediatrics 2021 Nordstrom M, Landman G, Pfaff N, Kaiser SV
• Impact of a National Quality Collaborative on Pediatric Asthma Care Quality by Insurance Status.
  Academic pediatrics 2021 Schechter SB, Pantell MS, Parikh K, Nkoy F, McCulloh R, Fassl B, Kaiser SV
• High-risk Behavior Screening and Interventions in Hospitalized Adolescents.
  Hospital pediatrics 2021 Pfaff N, Pantell MS, Kaiser SV
• Emergency Visits and Hospitalizations for Child Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Pediatrics 2020 Kaiser SV, Kornblith AE, Richardson T, Pantell MS, Fleegler EW, Fritz CQ, Parikh K, Zagel A, Sills MR, Souza HG, Goyal MK, Hogan AH, Heller KR, DeLaroche AM, Cooper JN, Puls HT
• Predictors of Quality Improvement in Pediatric Asthma Care.
  Hospital pediatrics 2020 Kaiser S, Gupta N, Mendoza J, Azzarone G, Parikh K, Nazif J, Cattamanchi A
• Effectiveness of Pediatric Asthma Pathways in Community Hospitals: A Multisite Quality Improvement Study.
  Pediatric quality & safety 2020 Desai M, Caldwell K, Gupta N, Bekmezian A, Cabana MD, Auerbach AD, Kaiser SV
• Implementing pediatric inpatient asthma pathways.
  The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2020 Gupta N, Cattamanchi A, Cabana MD, Jennings B, Parikh K, Kaiser SV
• Implementation of a multidisciplinary discharge videoconference for children with medical complexity: a pilot study.
  Pilot and feasibility studies 2020 Ravid NL, Zamora K, Rehm R, Okumura M, Takayama J, Kaiser S
• Associations Between Social Factor Documentation and Hospital Length of Stay and Readmission Among Children.
  Hospital pediatrics 2020 Pantell MS, Kaiser SV, Torres JM, Gottlieb LM, Adler NE
• Feasible Strategies for Sustaining Guideline Adherence: Cross-sectional Analysis of a National Collaborative.
  Hospital pediatrics 2019 Kaiser SV, Shadman KA, Biondi EA, McCulloh RJ
• Implementing Pediatric Asthma Pathways in Community Hospitals: A National Qualitative Study.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2019 McDaniel CE, Jeske M, Sampayo EM, Liu P, Walls TA, Kaiser SV
• Best practices in implementing inpatient pediatric asthma pathways: a qualitative study.
  The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2019 Kaiser SV, Lam R, Cabana MD, Bekmezian A, Bardach NS, Auerbach A, Rehm RS, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network
• Limitations of Using Pediatric Respiratory Illness Readmissions to Compare Hospital Performance.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Kaiser SV, Lam R, Joseph GB, McCulloch C, Hsia RY, Cabana MD, Bardach NS
• Using Quality Improvement to Tackle Unwarranted Practice Variation.
  Hospital pediatrics 2018 Kaiser SV, Garber MD
• Effectiveness of Pediatric Asthma Pathways for Hospitalized Children: A Multicenter, National Analysis.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2018 Kaiser SV, Rodean J, Bekmezian A, Hall M, Shah SS, Mahant S, Parikh K, Auerbach AD, Morse R, Puls HT, McCulloch CE, Cabana MD, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network
• Rising utilization of inpatient pediatric asthma pathways.
  The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2017 Kaiser SV, Rodean J, Bekmezian A, Hall M, Shah SS, Mahant S, Parikh K, Morse R, Puls H, Cabana MD, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network
• Health care for children with diabetes mellitus from low-income families in Ontario and California: a population-based cohort study.
  CMAJ open 2016 Kaiser SV, Sundaram V, Cohen E, Shulman R, Guan J, Sanders L, Guttmann A
• Preventing Exacerbations in Preschoolers With Recurrent Wheeze: A Meta-analysis.
  Pediatrics 2016 Kaiser SV, Huynh T, Bacharier LB, Rosenthal JL, Bakel LA, Parkin PC, Cabana MD
• Profiling Interfacility Transfers for Hospitalized Pediatric Patients.
  Hospital pediatrics 2016 Rosenthal JL, Hilton JF, Teufel RJ, Romano PS, Kaiser SV, Okumura MJ
• Implementation of a neonatal transcutaneous bilirubin screening programme in rural India.
  Paediatrics and international child health 2016 Morgan MC, Kumar GS, Kaiser SV, Seetharam S, Ruel TD
• Risk Factors for Prolonged Length of Stay or Complications During Pediatric Respiratory Hospitalizations.
  Hospital pediatrics 2015 Kaiser SV, Bakel LA, Okumura MJ, Auerbach AD, Rosenthal J, Cabana MD
• Predictors of Neonatal Sepsis in Rural Karnataka, India
  Asian Journal of Clinical Pediatrics and Neonatology 2013 Morgan MC, Ruel TD, Kumar GS, Sabnis AJ, Kaiser SV.
• Incidence and risk factors for non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI)-related rash in Thai children with HIV infection.
  Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet thangphaet 2007 Vemula S, Kerr S, Pancharoen C, Siripong A, Kosalaraksa P, Engchanil C, Chuamchaitrakool A, Intasan J, Lumbiganond P, Phanuphak P, Ananworanich J