Comparing Pediatric Physical Trauma Outcomes by Special Health Care Needs Status.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) have differing risk factors and injury characteristics compared with peers without special health care needs (SHCN). We examined the association between SHCN status and complications, mortality, and length of stay (LOS) after trauma hospitalization.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study using 2018 data from the National Trauma Data Bank for patients aged 1 to 18 years (n = 108 062). We examined the following hospital outcomes: any complication reported, unplanned admission to the ICU, in-hospital mortality, and hospital and ICU LOS. Multivariate regression models estimated the effect of SHCN status on hospital outcomes after controlling for patient demographics, injury severity score,

SUBMITTER: Lillvis DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10468415 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature