Interfacility Transfer of Children With Time-Sensitive Surgical Conditions, 2002-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Surgical care for children in the United States has become increasingly regionalized among fewer centers over time. The degree to which regionalization may be associated with access to urgent surgical care for time-sensitive conditions is not clear.

Objective

To investigate whether transfers and travel distance have increased for 4 surgical conditions, and whether changes in transfers and travel distance have been more pronounced for rural vs urban children.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cross-sectional study analyzed data from 9 State Inpatient Databases from 2002 to 2017. Participants included children aged younger than 18 years undergoing urgent or emergent procedures for malrotation with volvulus, esophageal foreign body, and ovar

SUBMITTER: Van Arendonk KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581541 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature