Trends in Outcomes and Variation by Race and Ethnicity in Pediatric Plastic Surgery in the United States.

ABSTRACT: The American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Project-Pediatric Data manages a multicenter dataset for monitoring outcomes in pediatric surgical care. We explored trends in outcomes in the most frequently sampled current procedural terminology codes related to craniofacial and cleft lip and palate (CLP) surgical procedures over a 7-year period.

Methods

We used National Surgical Quality Improvement Project-Pediatric Data on 28,147 pediatric patients who underwent plastic surgical procedures between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2018. Eighteen relevant current procedural terminology codes were selected and sorted into two procedure groups: CLP and craniofacial. For each group, we explored trends in readmission, reoperation, extended length of stay, morbid

SUBMITTER: Netson RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9901994 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature