Child Opportunity Index and Hospital Utilization in Children With Traumatic Brain Injury Admitted to the PICU.

ABSTRACT: The need to understand how Community-based disparities impact morbidity and mortality in pediatric critical illness, such as traumatic brain injury. Test the hypothesis that ZIP code-based disparities in hospital utilization, including length of stay (LOS) and hospital costs, exist in a cohort of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) admitted to a PICU using the Child Opportunity Index (COI).

Design

Multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database.

Patients

Children 0-18 years old admitted to a PHIS hospital with a diagnosis of TBI from January 2016 to December 2020 requiring PICU care. To identify the most severely injured children, a study-specific definition of "Complicated TBI" was created based on radi

SUBMITTER: Gray MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9894353 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature