摘要
Purpose: To design effective pediatric trauma care delivery systems, it is important to correlate site of care with corresponding outcomes. Using a multistate administrative database, we describe recent patient allocation and outcomes in pediatric injury. Methods: The 2000 Kids’Inpatient Database, containing 2,516,833 inpatient discharge records from 27 states, was filtered by E-code to yield pediatric injury cases. Injury Severity Scores (ISSs) were derived for each discharge using ICDMAP-90 (Tri-Analy- tics, Inc, Forest Hill, MD). After weighting to estimate national trends, cases were grouped by age (0-10, > 10-20 years), ISS (≤15, > 15), and National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions-designated site of care. Measured outcomes included mortality, length of stay, and total charges. Analysis was completed using Student’s t test and χ2. Results: Among 79,673 injury cases, mean age was 12.2 ±6.2 years and ISS was 7.4 ±7.6. Eighty-nine percent of injured children received care outside of children’s hospitals. In the subgroup of patients aged 0 to 10 years with ISS of greater than 15, the mean ISS for adult hospitals and children’s hospitals was not significantly different (18.9 ±9.1 vs. 19.4 ±9.3, P = .08). However, in-hospital mortality, length of stay, and charges were all significantly higher in adult hospitals (P < .0001). Conclusions: Younger and more seriously injured children have improved outcomes in children’s hospitals. Appropriate triage may improve outcomes in pediatric trauma.
Purpose： To design effective pediatric trauma care delivery systems, it is important to correlate site of care with corresponding outcomes. Using a multistate administrative database, we describe recent patient allocation and outcomes in pediatric injury. Methods： The 2000 Kids＇ Inpatient Database, containing 2, 516, 833 inpatient discharge records from 27 states,
