Return Visit Admissions May Not Indicate Quality of Emergency Department Care for Children
dc.contributor.author | Sills, Marion R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Macy, Michelle L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kocher, Keith E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sabbatini, Amber K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-04T18:47:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-13T14:45:25Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2018-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sills, Marion R.; Macy, Michelle L.; Kocher, Keith E.; Sabbatini, Amber K. (2018). "Return Visit Admissions May Not Indicate Quality of Emergency Department Care for Children." Academic Emergency Medicine 25(3): 283-292. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1069-6563 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1553-2712 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/142896 | |
dc.description.abstract | ObjectiveThe objective was to test the hypothesis that in‐hospital outcomes are worse among children admitted during a return ED visit than among those admitted during an index ED visit.MethodsThis was a retrospective analysis of ED visits by children age 0 to 17 to hospitals in Florida and New York in 2013. Children hospitalized during an ED return visit within 7 days were classified as “ED return admissions” (discharged at ED index visit and admitted at return visit) or “readmissions” (admission at both ED index and return visits). In‐hospital outcomes for ED return admissions and readmissions were compared to “index admissions without return admission” (admitted at ED index visit without 7‐day return visit admission).ResultsAmong 1,886,053 index ED visits to 321 hospitals, 75,437 were index admissions without return admission, 7,561 were ED return admissions, and 1,333 were readmissions. ED return admissions had lower intensive care unit admission rates (11.0% vs. 13.6%; adjusted odds ratio = 0.78; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.71 to 0.85), longer length of stay (3.51 days vs. 3.38 days; difference = 0.13 days; incidence rate ratio = 1.04; 95% CI = 1.02 to 1.07), but no difference in mean hospital costs (($7,138 vs. $7,331; difference = –$193; 95% CI = –$479 to $93) compared to index admissions without return admission.ConclusionsCompared with children who experienced index admissions without return admission, children who are initially discharged from the ED who then have a return visit admission had lower severity and similar cost, suggesting that ED return visit admissions do not involve worse outcomes than do index admissions. | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | |
dc.publisher | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | |
dc.title | Return Visit Admissions May Not Indicate Quality of Emergency Department Care for Children | |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Medicine (General) | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/142896/1/acem13324_am.pdf | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/142896/2/acem13324.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/acem.13324 | |
dc.identifier.source | Academic Emergency Medicine | |
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