Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine

Pediatrics

Scott Lorch practices Pediatrics. He researched medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has a rank of 19 in research and a 29 in primary care He received awards:"Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FAAP)". Dr. Scott A. Lorch is also a published doctor. He has 64 publication published. The most recent publication is: Why go see the doctor? Care goes from office to home as technology divorces function from geography.

Publications

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• Factors associated with high-risk rural women giving birth in non-NICU hospital settings.
• Effects of a Birth Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Level and Annual Volume of Very Low-Birth-Weight Infant Deliveries on Morbidity and Mortality.
• Lessons For Providers And Hospitals From Philadelphia's Obstetric Services Closures And Consolidations, 1997-2012.
• Ensuring Access to the Appropriate Health Care Professionals: Regionalization and Centralization of Care in a New Era of Health Care Financing and Delivery.
• Using an instrumental variable to test for unmeasured confounding.
• Variation in treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome in US Children's Hospitals, 2004-2011.
• Ensemble of trees approaches to risk adjustment for evaluating a hospital's performance.
• Predictors and adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with antepartum discharge against medical advice.
• The impact of growth curve changes in assessing premature infant growth.
• Variations in postdelivery infection and thrombosis by hospital teaching status.
• Length of stay and readmission among late preterm infants: an instrumental variable approach.
• Hospitalization of rural and urban infants during the first year of life.
• Factors That Mediate Racial/Ethnic Disparities in US Fetal Death Rates.
• The Impact of Obstetric Unit Closures on Maternal and Infant Pregnancy Outcomes.
• The Differential Impact of Delivery Hospital on the Outcomes of Premature Infants.
• Delayed acyclovir therapy and death among neonates with herpes simplex virus infection.
• The laborist model of obstetric care: we need more evidence.
• Health insurance and length of stay for children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.
• Association of late-preterm birth with asthma in young children: practice-based study.
• Epidemiology of Apnea and Bradycardia Resolution in Premature Infants.
• Adherence to discharge guidelines for late-preterm newborns.
• Subjective Social Status and Maternal Health in a Low Income Urban Population.
• Defining and measuring successful emergency care networks: a research agenda.
• The regionalization of pediatric health care.
• The Hospital Compare mortality model and the volume-outcome relationship.
• Premature infants born to adolescent mothers: health care utilization after initial discharge.
• National hospitalization trends for pediatric pneumonia and associated complications.
• Evaluating risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rate as a measure of obstetric quality.
• Antibiotic use in premature infants after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit.
• Impact of congenital anomalies and treatment location on the outcomes of infants hospitalized with herpes simplex virus (HSV).
• The role of outpatient facilities in explaining variations in risk-adjusted readmission rates between hospitals.
• Congenital anomalies and resource utilization in neonates infected with herpes simplex virus.
• Infant functional status: the timing of physiologic maturation of premature infants.
• Time to send the preemie home? Additional maturity at discharge and subsequent health care costs and outcomes.
• Use of prolonged travel to improve pediatric risk-adjustment models.
• One-year respiratory outcomes of preterm infants enrolled in the Nitric Oxide (to prevent) Chronic Lung Disease trial.
• Impact of admission-day crowding on the length of stay of pediatric hospitalizations.
• Factors influencing the decision to test young infants for herpes simplex virus infection.
• Racial differences in the use of respiratory medications in premature infants after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit.
• Routine cerebrospinal fluid enterovirus polymerase chain reaction testing reduces hospitalization and antibiotic use for infants 90 days of age or younger.
• Metoclopramide for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease in infants: a systematic review.
• Preoperative antibiotics and mortality in the elderly.
• Cost-effectiveness of presumptively medically treating women at risk for ectopic pregnancy compared with first performing a dilatation and curettage.
• Equivalent lengths of stay of pediatric patients hospitalized in rural and nonrural hospitals.
• Oxygen tension and inhaled nitric oxide modulate pulmonary levels of S-nitrosocysteine and 3-nitrotyrosine in rats.
• Cost-effectiveness of inhaled nitric oxide for the management of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn.
• "Benign" extra-axial fluid in survivors of neonatal intensive care.
• Plasma 3-nitrotyrosine and outcome in neonates with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia after inhaled nitric oxide.
• Assessment of surfactant use in preterm infants as a marker of neonatal intensive care unit quality.
• Economic evaluation of caffeine for apnea of prematurity.
• Urinary metabolites of oxidative stress and nitric oxide in preterm and term infants.
• Pediatric care for preterm infants after NICU discharge: high number of office visits and prescription medications.
• Immunohistochemical localization of protein 3-nitrotyrosine and S-nitrosocysteine in a murine model of inhaled nitric oxide therapy.
• Reactive nitrogen species and proteins: biological significance and clinical relevance.
• The impact of certificate of need programs on neonatal intensive care units.
• Predictors of cesarean delivery for periviable neonates.
• Racial and ethnic differences in use of intubation for periviable neonates.
• The impact of feeding interval on feeding outcomes in very low birth-weight infants.
• Detection of peroxynitrite-induced protein and DNA modifications.
• A cost-effectiveness analysis of surgical versus medical management of early pregnancy loss.
• Laborist model of care: who is using it?
• Neonatal blue-light phototherapy could increase the risk of dysplastic nevus development.
• Why go see the doctor? Care goes from office to home as technology divorces function from geography.

Schools

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• Northwestern University The Feinberg School Of Medicine

• Vanderbilt University Med Center

• Chldns Hospital Of Philadelphia University Penn

Doctors Specialties

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• Neonatal Medicine
• Pediatrics

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Super Doctor
• Fellow (FAAP)

Education

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• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Vanderbilt University
• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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