Brittany Slagle

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Associate Professor

UAMS

Peds Pediatrics, College of Medicine

2 h-index 9 pubs 8 cited

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Brittany Slagle's research focuses on pediatric health outcomes, with a particular emphasis on factors influencing patient care and recovery. Her work includes investigations into the length of stay and readmission rates for eating disorders in children and adolescents, considering variables such as payor source. Slagle also studies the impact of communication methods, such as preferred written language, on the discharge process for pediatric patients diagnosed with bronchiolitis.

Her research extends to examining specific medical conditions in pediatric populations, including altered mental status and cardiac failure due to thiamine deficiency in an overweight teen, and the causes of refractory ventricular tachycardia in a pediatric patient. Additionally, she has explored resource utilization related to snakebites in urban and rural pediatric populations and has contributed to improving diagnostic practices for Clostridioides difficile in children. Slagle's publications also address readmission factors for growth faltering and the clinical suspicion required for diagnosing infant botulism.

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h-index: 2
Publications: 9
Citations: 8

Selected Publications

Evaluation of factors associated with readmission for growth faltering (2026)

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences DOI OpenAlex
More Than Just a Floppy Baby: Maintaining High Clinical Suspicion of Infant Botulism (2026)

Cureus DOI OpenAlex
Eating Disorder Length of Stay and Readmission Rate Differences Depending on Payor Source (2025)

Hospital Pediatrics 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Snakebites and resource utilization in pediatric urban and rural populations in the United States: 2016–2023 (2025)

Injury Epidemiology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Comparing Cisgender and Trans-spectrum Postsecondary Student Alcohol and Substance Use: Results From the Arkansas Collegiate Substance Use Assessment (2024)

American Journal of Health Promotion DOI OpenAlex
Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report of Hepatic Phlegmon in an Immunocompetent Patient (2024)

Cureus DOI OpenAlex
Altered Mental Status and Cardiac Failure Due to Thiamine Deficiency in an Overweight Teen (2024)

PEDIATRICS 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Impact of Preferred Written Language in Patients Discharged With Bronchiolitis From a Children’s Hospital (2024)

Hospital Pediatrics 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Improving Pediatric Clostridioides difficile Testing Practices: Implementation of a 2-Tier Diagnostic Pathway (2023)

JAP Academy Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex