Latent Classes in Long-Term Functional Status in Children With Recurrent Critical Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify and describe trajectories of functional status in children with repeated PICU admissions and to describe clinical and demographic characteristics of each trajectory.

Design

Retrospective, cross-sectional study.

Setting

Twenty-four U.S. PICUs participating in the Virtual Pediatric Systems, LLC database.

Patients

Patients younger than 21 years old discharged from an index admission between April 2017 and December 2020, followed through December 2022.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Functional status, a multidimensional marker of a child's physiologic and cognitive status, was measured using the Functional Status Scale (FSS). FSS scores were collected by trained abstractors to reflect pre-illness baseline and

SUBMITTER: Heneghan JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12702461 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature