Hospital Variation in Intensive Care Resource Utilization and Mortality in Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Leukemia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate hospital-level variability in resource utilization and mortality in children with new leukemia who require ICU support, and identify factors associated with variation.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Children's hospitals contributing to the Pediatric Health Information Systems administrative database from 1999 to 2011.

Patients

Inpatients less than 25 years old with newly diagnosed acute lymphocytic leukemia or acute myeloid leukemia requiring ICU support (n = 1,754).

Interventions, measurements, and main results

Evaluated exposures included leukemia type, year of diagnosis, and hospital-wide proportion of patients with public insurance. The main outcome was hospital mortality. Wide variability existed in the ICU resourc

SUBMITTER: Fitzgerald JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5986594 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature