Medicaid, hospital financial stress, and the incidence of adverse medical events for children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the association between Medicaid-induced financial stress of a hospital and the probability of an adverse medical event for a pediatric discharge.

Data sources

Secondary data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, and the American Hospital Association's Annual Survey of Hospitals. Study examines 985,896 pediatric discharges (children age 0-17), from 1,050 community hospitals in 26 states (representing 63 percent of the U.S. Medicaid population) between 2005 and 2007.

Study design

We estimate the probability of an adverse event, controlling for patient, hospital, and state characteristics, using an aggregated, composite measure to overcome rarity of individual event

SUBMITTER: Smith RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3401402 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature