Critical Revisits Among Children After Emergency Department Discharge.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

Identifying higher risk groups could reveal ways to prevent critical emergency department (ED) revisits. The study objectives were to determine the rate of critical ED revisits among children discharged from the ED and to identify factors associated with critical revisits.

Methods

We performed a retrospective study using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State ED Databases (SEDD) and the State Inpatient Databases (SID). We included data from 6 states from 2014 through 2017. Critical ED revisit was defined as either ICU admission or death within 3 days of the initial ED discharge. We included all patients younger than 21 years. The main outcome was the rate of critical ED revisit. We also determined the relative risk (RR) of a critical ED revisit for

SUBMITTER: Cavallaro SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10889433 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature