Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Distance to Pediatric Critical Care*

OBJECTIVES: To describe the geography of pediatric critical care services and the relationship between poverty and distance to these services across the United States. DESIGN: Retrospective, cross-sectional study. SETTING: Contiguous United States. PATIENTS: Children less than 18 years as represented in the 2016 American Community Survey. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Pediatric critical care services were geographically concentrated within urban areas, with half of all PICUs located within 9.5 miles of another (interquartile range, 3.4–51.5 miles). Median distances from neighborhoods to the nearest unit increased linearly with Area Deprivation Index (p
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