Weekend Surgical Admissions of Pediatric IBD Patients Have a Higher Risk of Complication in Hospitals Across the US.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Weekend surgical admissions to the hospital are associated with worse clinical outcomes when compared with weekday admissions. We aimed to evaluate the association of weekend admission and in-hospital complications for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) hospitalizations requiring urgent abdominal surgery.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional analysis of pediatric (18 years old and younger) IBD hospitalizations between 1997 and 2016 using the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), a nationally representative database of pediatric hospitalizations. We included discharges with a diagnosis code for Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) undergoing a surgical procedure within 48 hours of admission. We used logistic regression to evaluate the association of

SUBMITTER: Egberg MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6943686 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature