Complications, Adverse Drug Events, High Costs, and Disparities in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children vs COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) causes severe inflammation of multiple organ systems after SARS-CoV-2 infection. During the pandemic, surveillance reporting of MIS-C was voluntary, with likely underreporting. For a rare syndrome like MIS-C, numerous data are needed to explore the disease in greater detail.

Objective

To use large all-payer billing data and the new International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) code for MIS-C to compare outcomes across MIS-C and COVID-19 over all 4057 hospitals in 31 states.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective cross-sectional study of all COVID-19 and MIS-C hospitalizations in individuals younger than 21 ye

SUBMITTER: Encinosa W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857408 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature