Adverse Events and Patient Outcomes Among Hospitalized Children Cared for by General Pediatricians vs Hospitalists.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Pediatric hospital medicine is a relatively new and growing specialty. However, research remains inconclusive on outcomes for inpatients cared for by pediatric hospitalists compared with those cared for by general pediatricians.

Objective

To analyze outcomes, adverse events (AEs), and types of AEs associated with care provided for pediatric patients by hospitalists vs general pediatricians.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from the medical records of a US urban academic children's hospital comprising 1423 hospitalizations between January 1, 2009, and August 31, 2015, for 57 diagnoses of patients cared for by either a hospitalist or general pediatrician. General pediatricians worked primarily in the hospital's outpatient

SUBMITTER: Atkinson MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324330 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature