Pulse Oximetry Screening: Association of State Mandates with Emergency Hospitalizations.

ABSTRACT: We evaluated the association between implementation of state-mandated pulse oximetry screening (POS) and rates of emergency hospitalizations among infants with Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) and assessed differences in that association across race/ethnicity. We hypothesized that emergency hospitalizations among infants with CCHD decreased after implementation of mandated POS and that the reduction was larger among racial and ethnic minorities compared to non-Hispanic Whites. We utilized statewide inpatient databases from Arizona, California, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, and Washington State (2010-2014). A difference-in-differences model with negative binomial regression was used. We identified patients with CCHD whose hospitalizations between three days and three months of lif

SUBMITTER: Sakai-Bizmark R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10060123 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature