Associations between Hospital Setting and Outcomes after Pediatric Appendectomy
Anshul Bhatnagar, Sean Mackman, Kyle J Van Arendonk, Sam Z Thalji, Gloria Pelizzo, Francesca Destro · 2023
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Anshul Bhatnagar and co-authors compare children's appendix surgery outcomes across hospital settings, in a 2023 study. Past work had not stripped out the patient mix differences between city, teaching, and rural hospitals. A national children's inpatient database from 2016 supplied the cases.
Nearly fifty-five thousand operations were sorted by setting. Urban teaching centers handled three quarters of cases and used keyhole surgery most often. After adjustment, those centers cost about eighteen percent less per stay than rural ones, despite stays running about eleven percent longer. Complication odds after keyhole surgery were also lower there. The authors argue setting shapes both cost and safety.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anshul Bhatnagar, Sean Mackman, Kyle J Van Arendonk, Sam Z Thalji, Gloria Pelizzo, Francesca Destro |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |