Outcomes of Hospital Transfers for Pediatric Abdominal Pain and Appendicitis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hospital care for children is becoming more concentrated, with interhospital transfer occurring more frequently even for common conditions. Condition-specific analysis is required to determine the value, costs, and consequences of this trend.

Objectives

To describe the capabilities of transferring and receiving hospitals and to determine how often children transferred after an initial diagnosis of abdominal pain or appendicitis require higher levels of care.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort analysis using the 2 most recent available inpatient and emergency department administrative data sets from all acute care hospitals in California from 2010 to 2011 and Florida, Massachusetts, and New York from 2013 to 2014. Data were analyzed betwe

SUBMITTER: Franca UL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324598 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature