Hospital Readmissions After Pediatric Trauma

Objectives:
To determine the rate, etiology, and timing of unplanned and planned hospital readmissions and to identify risk factors for unplanned readmission in children who survive a hospitalization for trauma.
Design:
Multicenter retrospective cohort study of a probabilistically linked dataset from the National Trauma Data Bank and the Pediatric Health Information System database, 2007–2012.
Setting:
Twenty-nine U.S. children’s hospitals.
Patients:
51,591 children (

Source: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - January 1, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Online Clinical Investigations Source Type: research