4th Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, General Faculty Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
General hospitals (GH) provide inpatient care for the majority of hospitalized children in the United States, yet the majority of hospital pediatrics research is conducted at freestanding children's h...
Updating a prior 2012 analysis, this study used 2019 data to describe characteristics of pediatric hospitalizations at general and freestanding hospitals in the United States and identify the most com...
This study examined hospitalizations in children <18 years using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's 2019 Kids' Inpatient Database, stratifying neonatal and nonneonatal hospital stays....
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Sociodemographic and clinical differences between hospitalizations at general and freestanding children's hospitals were examined, applying survey weights to generate national estimates....
There were an estimated 5,263,218 pediatric hospitalizations in 2019, including 3,757,601 neonatal and 1,505,617 nonneonatal hospital stays. Overall, 88.6% (n = 4,661,288) of hospitalizations occurred...
The intensive care unit (ICU) is a finite and expensive resource with demand not infrequently exceeding capacity. Understanding ICU capacity strain is essential to gain situational awareness. Increase...
In-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) is a significant public health burden. Rates of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) have been improving, but the best way to care for patients after the initial ...
Our study collects granular data on post-IHCA treatment practices, focusing on temperature control and prognostication, with the objective of describing variation in current post-IHCA practice....
This is a multicenter, prospectively collected, observational cohort study of patients who have suffered IHCA and have been successfully resuscitated (achieved ROSC). There are 24 enrolling hospital s...
The study collects data on patient characteristics including pre-arrest frailty, arrest characteristics, and detailed information on post-arrest practices and outcomes. Data collection on post-IHCA pr...
We expect this study, Discover IHCA, to identify variability in practice and outcomes following IHCA, and be a vital resource for future investigations into best-practice for managing patients after I...
To describe and analyze the aspects regarding the cost and length of stay for elderly patients with bone fractures in a tertiary reference hospital....
A cross-sectional retrospective study using data obtained from medical records between January and December 2020. For statistical analysis, exploratory analyses, Shapiro-Wilk test, χ2 test, and Spearm...
During the study period, 156 elderly patients (62.2% women) with bone fractures were treated. The main trauma mechanism was a fall from a standing height (76.9%). The most common type of fracture in t...
Fractures in the elderly are frequent, resulting in significant costs. The longer the hospital stay for treatment, the higher the total cost. No correlation was found between total cost and number of ...
Cleft lip or palate is a prevalent birth defect, occurring in approximately 1 to 2 per 1000 newborns and often necessitating numerous hospitalizations. Specific rates of hospitalization and complicati...
To assess the rates of airway infection-associated hospitalization, overall hospital admissions, in-hospital complications, and mortality among children with a cleft lip or palate....
This nationwide, population-based cohort study used in-hospital claims data from the Federal Statistical Office in Switzerland between 2012 and 2021. Participants included newborns with complete birth...
Prevalent diagnosis of a cleft lip or palate at birth....
Outcomes of interest were monthly hospitalization rates for airway infections and any cause during the first 2 years of life in newborns with cleft lip or palate. In-hospital outcomes and mortality ou...
Of 857 806 newborns included, 1197 (0.1%) had a cleft lip and/or palate, including 170 (14.2%) with a cleft lip only, 493 (41.2%) with a cleft palate only, and 534 (44.6%) with cleft lip and palate. N...
In this nationwide cohort study, the presence of cleft lip or palate was associated with increased hospitalization rates for respiratory infections and other causes, as well as poorer in-hospital outc...
Older adults who are hospitalized for COVID-19 are at risk of delirium. Little is known about the association of in-hospital delirium with functional and cognitive outcomes among older adults who have...
To evaluate the association of delirium with functional disability and cognitive impairment over the 6 months after discharge among older adults hospitalized with COVID-19....
This prospective cohort study involved patients aged 60 years or older who were hospitalized with COVID-19 between June 18, 2020, and June 30, 2021, at 5 hospitals in a major tertiary care system in t...
Delirium during the COVID-19 hospitalization was assessed using the Chart-based Delirium Identification Instrument (CHART-DEL) and CHART-DEL-ICU....
Primary outcomes were disability in 15 functional activities and the presence of cognitive impairment (defined as Montreal Cognitive Assessment score <22) at 1, 3, and 6 months after hospital discharg...
The cohort included 311 older adults (mean [SD] age, 71.3 [8.5] years; 163 female [52.4%]) who survived COVID-19 hospitalization. In the functional disability sample of 311 participants, 49 participan...
In this cohort study of 311 hospitalized older adults with COVID-19, in-hospital delirium was associated with increased functional disability and cognitive impairment over the 6 months following disch...
To compare hospitals that did and did not participate in clinical trials evaluating potential inpatient COVID-19 therapeutics....
We conducted a cross-sectional study of hospitals participating in trials that were registered on clinicaltrials.gov between April and August 2020. Using the 2019 RAND Hospital Dataset and 2019 Americ...
We included 488 hospitals that were participating in 298 interventional trials and 4232 non-participating hospitals. After controlling for demographic and other hospital traits, we found that teaching...
Hospitals participating and not participating in COVID-19 inpatient treatment clinical trials differed in many ways, resulting in important implications for the generalizability of trial data....
More than 70 000 Medicare beneficiaries receive care in long-term acute care hospitals (LTCHs) annually for prolonged acute illness. However, little is known about long-term functional and cognitive o...
To describe survival, functional, and cognitive status after LTCH hospitalization and to identify factors associated with an adverse outcome....
This retrospective cohort study included middle-aged and older adults enrolled in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) with linked fee-for-service Medicare claims. Included participants were aged 50 ...
Function and cognition were ascertained from HRS interviews conducted every 2 years. The primary outcome was death or severe impairment in the 2.5 years after LTCH hospitalization, defined as dependen...
This study included 396 participants, with a median age of 75 (IQR, 68-82) years. Of the participants, 201 (51%) were women, 125 (28%) had severe impairment, and 318 (80%) died or survived with severe...
In this cohort study, 4 of 5 middle-aged and older adults died or survived with severe impairment within 2.5 years of LTCH hospitalization. Better preadmission survival prognosis and functional and co...
National analyses suggest that approximately 1 in 5 US hospitals closed their pediatric units between 2008 and 2018. The extent to which pediatric hospitalizations at general hospitals in rural and ur...
To describe changes in the number and proportion of pediatric hospitalizations and costs at urban teaching, urban nonteaching, and rural hospitals vs freestanding children's hospitals from 2009 to 201...
This study is a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the 2009, 2012, 2016, and 2019 Kids' Inpatient Database, a nationally representative data set of US pediatric hospitalizations among children ...
Pediatric hospitalizations were grouped as birth or nonbirth hospitalizations. Hospitals were categorized as freestanding children's hospitals or as rural, urban nonteaching, or urban teaching general...
The primary outcomes were annual number and proportion of birth and nonbirth hospitalizations and health care costs, changes in the proportion of hospitalizations with complex diagnoses, and estimated...
The data included 23.2 million (95% CI, 22.7-23.6 million) weighted hospitalizations. From 2009 to 2019, estimated national annual pediatric hospitalizations decreased from 6 425 858 to 5 297 882, as ...
Between 2009 and 2019, the largest decreases in pediatric hospitalizations occurred at rural and urban nonteaching hospitals. Clinical and policy initiatives to support hospitals with low pediatric vo...
This study aimed to analyze the influencing factors of hospitalization cost of hypertensive patients in TCM (traditional Chinese medicine, TCM) hospitals, which can provide a scientific basis for hosp...
In this study, 3,595 hospitalized patients with a primary diagnosis of tertiary hypertension in Tianshui City Hospital of TCM, Gansu Province, China, from January 2017 to June 2022, were used as resea...
The results showed that hospitalization cost of hypertension patients were mainly influenced by length of stay, age, admission pathways, payment methods of medical insurance, and visit times, with len...
The Chinese government should actively exert the characteristics and advantages of TCM in the treatment of chronic diseases such as hypertension, consistently optimize the treatment plans of TCM, effe...
