Variation in Adjusted Mortality for Medical Admissions to Pediatric Cardiac ICUs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Pediatric cardiac ICUs should be adept at treating both critical medical and surgical conditions for patients with cardiac disease. There are no case-mix adjusted quality metrics specific to medical cardiac ICU admissions. We aimed to measure case-mix adjusted cardiac ICU medical mortality rates and assess variation across cardiac ICUs in the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium.

Design

Observational analysis.

Setting

Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium clinical registry.

Patients

All cardiac ICU admissions that did not include cardiac surgery.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

The primary endpoint was cardiac ICU mortality. Based on multivariable logistic regression accounting for clustering, we created a c

SUBMITTER: Gaies M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6373463 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature