Inpatient Versus Outpatient Management of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Pediatric Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is commonly used to manage complex wounds in the pediatric population. With recently developed portable NPWT devices, providers have the opportunity to transition NPWT to the outpatient setting. However, there are no studies describing outpatient NPWT in pediatric patients. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to leverage a population-level analysis to advance our current knowledge about outpatient NPWT use in pediatric patients.

Materials and methods

We analyzed the Truven Health Analytics MarketScan Commercial Claims Database from 2006 to 2014 to identify children treated with NPWT. We compared patient characteristics, indications, complications before and after NPWT, health care utilization within 30 d of NPWT initiatio

SUBMITTER: Santosa KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7484025 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature