Identifying Conditions With High Prevalence, Cost, and Variation in Cost in US Children's Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Identifying high priority pediatric conditions is important for setting a research agenda in hospital pediatrics that will benefit families, clinicians, and the health care system. However, the last such prioritization study was conducted more than a decade ago and used International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes.

Objectives

To identify conditions that should be prioritized for comparative effectiveness research based on prevalence, cost, and variation in cost of hospitalizations using contemporary data at US children's hospitals.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study of children with hospital encounters used data from the Pediatric Health Information System database. Children

SUBMITTER: Gill PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8314139 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature