Jeffrey H. Sacks1,2, Michael Kelleman2, Courtney McCracken2, Michelle Glanville1, Matthew Oster1,2
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.12, No.3, pp. 282-288, 2017, DOI:10.1111/chd.12436
Abstract Objective: Hospital readmissions are increasingly becoming a metric for quality in the current
landscape of changing and cost effective medicine. However, no 30-d readmission rates have
been established for pediatric cardiac medical patients in the United States. Thus, the objective
was to determine 30 d readmission rates and risk factors associated with readmission for pediatric
cardiac patients, hypothesizing that pediatric cardiac patients would have significantly higher readmission rates than their general pediatric counterparts.
Design: This was a retrospective cohort study.
Setting: The study took place at a large urban academic children’s hospital.
Patients: The 1124 included patients were discharged… More >
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