Danielle Hodge, a recent graduate from the college’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (PNP-AC) program, is a co-author of “Catheter related thrombosis in hospitalized infants: A neural network approach to predict risk factors,” an article that was just published in the Thrombosis Research journal. The article was based on a highly complex study that was the focus of Hodge’s DNP project.

PNP-AC Program Director Jodi Bloxham, who served as Hodge’s faculty mentor, was second author of the article.

According the abstract, the research team sought to “investigate the predictors of catheter-related thrombosis (CRT) in a cohort of critically ill hospitalized infants and using a novel approach (the artificial neural network - ANN) in combination with conventional statistics to identify/confirm those predictors.”

Access to the full article can be found here: http://bit.ly/3pR1VaQ