Does perioperative respiratory event increase length of hospital stay and hospital cost in pediatric ambulatory surgery?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined the consequences of perioperative respiratory event (PRE) in terms of hospitalization and hospital cost in children who underwent ambulatory surgery.

Methods

This subgroup analysis of a prospective cohort study (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02036021) was conducted in children aged between 1 month and 14 years who underwent ambulatory surgery between November 2012 and December 2013. Exposure was the presence of PRE either intraoperatively or in the postanesthetic care unit or both. The primary outcome was length of stay after surgery. The secondary outcome was excess hospital cost excluding surgical cost. Financial information was also compared between PRE and non-PRE. Directed acyclic graphs were used to select the covariates to be included in the multivariat

SUBMITTER: Oofuvong M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8118274 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature