Cost of Pediatric Severe Sepsis Hospitalizations

JAMA Pediatr. 2019 Oct 1;173(10):986-987. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.2570.

Authors

Erin F Carlton^{1

2}, Ryan P Barbaro^{1

2}, Theodore Jack Iwashyna^{3

4}, Hallie C Prescott^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
² Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
³ VA Center for Clinical Management Research, Health Services Research and Development Center of Innovation, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁴ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Abstract

This study examines the increasing costs of pediatric hospitalizations for cases of severe sepsis using the 2016 Nationwide Readmissions Database.

Grants and funding

K08 GM115859/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States