Resources and Costs Associated With Repeated Admissions to PICUs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the costs and hospital resource use from all PICU patients readmitted with a PICU stay within 12 months of hospital index discharge.

Design

Cross-sectional, retrospective cohort study using Pediatric Health Information System.

Setting

Fifty-two tertiary children's hospitals.

Subjects

Pediatric patients under 18 years old admitted to the PICU from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2017.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Patient characteristics and costs of care were compared between those with readmission requiring PICU care and those with only a single PICU admission per annum. In this 2-year cohort, there were 239,157 index PICU patients of which 36,970 (15.5%) were readmitted and required PICU care during th

SUBMITTER: Kane JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7892293 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature