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Analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey database offers a national perspective into ED RVs in children. In this era of increasing utilization, these results can help physicians and policy makers address the unique needs of this population and create interventions that will optimize patient service while attempting to control potentially unnecessary RVs.

Pediatric and nonpediatric residents who rotate through a high-volume children's hospital ED are exposed to a very low number of critically ill children. Other educational formats, such as mock resuscitations or standardized patient encounters, may be required to correct this deficit.

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The explicit criteria and resources methods best approximate implicit criteria in classifying ED visit urgency in infants younger than six months of age. If confirmed in further studies, resources utilized has the potential to be an inexpensive, easily applicable method for urgency classification of infant ED visits when limited data are available.