Variation in emergency department admission rates in US children's hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To measure the hospital-level variation in admission rates for children receiving treatment of common pediatric illnesses across emergency departments (EDs) in US children's hospitals.

Methods

We performed a multi-center cross sectional study of children presenting to the EDs of 35 pediatric tertiary-care hospitals participating in the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS). Admission rates were calculated for visits occurring between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2012, associated with 1 of 7 common conditions, and corrected to adjust for hospital-level severity of illness. Conditions were selected systematically based on frequency of visits and admission rates.

Results

A total of 1288706 ED encounters (13.8% of all encounters) were associated with 1

SUBMITTER: Bourgeois FT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4144003 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature