Sociodemographic factors associated with tracheostomy and mortality in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We sought to investigate how race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status relate to tracheostomy insertion and post-tracheostomy mortality among infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).

Methods

The Vizient Clinical Database/Resource Manager was queried to identify infants born ≤32 weeks with BPD admitted to US hospitals from January 2012 to December 2020. Markers of socioeconomic status were linked to patient records from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Social Determinants of Health Database. Regression models were used to assess trends in annual tracheostomy insertion rate and odds of tracheostomy insertion and post-tracheostomy mortality, adjusting for sociodemographic and clinical factors.

Results

There were 40,021 ex-premature infant

SUBMITTER: Smith MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10122507 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature