Geographic Variation in Hospitalization for Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Across One County.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Bronchiolitis and pneumonia are leading causes of pediatric hospitalizations. Identifying geographic patterns in hospitalization rates across small geographic areas could be particularly relevant to targeted patient-level and population-level health care.

Objective

To determine whether lower respiratory tract infection hospitalization rates varied geographically across a single county and whether such variability was associated with socioeconomic conditions.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional, population-based study of children hospitalized at one institution for lower respiratory tract infections between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2013. The setting was Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, a large, academic, stand-alone pedia

SUBMITTER: Beck AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4786371 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature