Lack of Association of Household Income and Acute Gastroenteritis Disease Severity in Young Children: A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if low household income is associated with disease severity following emergency department (ED) discharge in children with acute gastroenteritis (AGE).

Methods

We conducted a secondary analysis employing data collected in 10 US-based tertiary-care, pediatric EDs between 2014 and 2017. Participants were aged 3 to 48 months and presented for care due to AGE. Income status was defined based on 1) home ZIP Code median annual home income and 2) percentage of home ZIP Code households below the poverty threshold. The primary outcome was moderate-to-severe AGE, defined by a post-ED visit Modified Vesikari Scale (MVS) score ≥9. Secondary outcomes included in-person revisits, revisits with intravenous rehydration, hospitalization, and etiologic pathogens.

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SUBMITTER: Chun TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10130956 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature