Unscheduled readmissions to the PICU: Epidemiology, risk factors, and variation among centers

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 571-579

  Czaja, Angela S ^a   Hosokawa, Patrick W ^b   Henderson, William G ^b  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Outcomes research; Patient readmissions; Quality indicators (healthcare); Risk factors

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ASTHMATIC STATE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; GOVERNMENT; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKULL DEFECT;

EID: 84880847680     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3182917a68     Document Type: Article

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