Hospital costs and inpatient mortality among children undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the association between hospital costs and risk-adjusted inpatient mortality among children undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease (CHD) in U.S. acute-care hospitals.

Data sources/study settings

Retrospective cohort study of 35,446 children in 2003, 2006, and 2009 Kids' Inpatient Database (KID).

Study design

Cross-sectional logistic regression of risk-adjusted inpatient mortality and hospital costs, adjusting for a variety of patient-, hospital-, and community-level confounders.

Data collection/extraction methods

We identified relevant discharges in the KID using the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicator for pediatric heart surgery mortality, and linked these records to hospital characteristics from American Hospital Association Surve

SUBMITTER: Romley JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3976188 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature