Health Care Resource Use and Costs After Hospitalization With Multiple Organ Dysfunction in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Multiple organ dysfunction (MOD) is a leading cause of in-hospital child mortality. For survivors, posthospitalization health care resource use and costs are unknown.

Objective

To evaluate longitudinal health care resource use and costs after hospitalization with MOD in infants (aged <1 year) and children (aged 1-18 years).

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used nationwide data from 2004 to 2019 from Optum's deidentified Clinformatics Data Mart Database, an insurance claims database. Infants and children from birth to age 18 years with an index hospitalization between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2018, were included. Infants (age <1 year) and children (age 1-18 years) with MOD (MOD cohort) or without MOD (non-MOD cohort)

SUBMITTER: Odetola FO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11780478 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature