Trends in Regionalization of Emergency Care for Common Pediatric Conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For children who cannot be discharged from the emergency department, definitive care has become less frequent at most hospitals. It is uncertain whether this is true for common conditions that do not require specialty care. We sought to determine how the likelihood of definitive care has changed for 3 common pediatric conditions: asthma, croup, and gastroenteritis.

Methods

We used the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample database to study children <18 years old presenting to emergency departments in the United States from 2008 to 2016 with a primary diagnosis of asthma, croup, or gastroenteritis, excluding critically ill patients. The primary outcome was referral rate: the number of patients transferred among all patients who could not be discharged. Analyses we

SUBMITTER: Cushing AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7236317 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature