Pediatrics is a field of medical specialty that focuses on children and their potential to successfully grow and develop into healthy adults. The articles in this special edition of Hospital Practice span a range of issues that affect children and their health care in the inpatient hospital setting, including equity and bias mitigation in health care, efficiency in patient rounding, using patient and family complaints to drive improvement efforts, the diagnostic process and avoiding fundamental diagnostic errors, pediatric palliative care, rapidly identifying and treating sepsis in children, the care and management of children on home ventilation, instituting a rapid response team in the pediatric environment, and quality rating systems for children's hospitals.
Keywords: Pediatrics; children’s health; children’s hospitals; pediatric hospital medicine; pediatric inpatient health care.