Emergency Department Visits by Children With Congenital Heart Disease

Data related to the epidemiology and resource utilization of congenital heart disease (CHD)–related emergency department (ED) visits in the pediatric population is limited. The purpose of this analysis was to describe national estimates of pediatric CHD-related ED visits and evaluate medical complex...

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Published in:Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2018-10, Vol.72 (15), p.1817-1825
Main Authors: Edelson, Jonathan B., Rossano, Joseph W., Griffis, Heather, Dai, Dingwei, Faerber, Jennifer, Ravishankar, Chitra, Mascio, Christopher E., Mercer-Rosa, Laura M., Glatz, Andrew C., Lin, Kimberly Y.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiology
Cardiovascular disease
Child
Child Health Services - economics
Child Health Services - statistics & numerical data
Child, Preschool
Children
Chronic illnesses
Comorbidity
Confidence intervals
Congenital diseases
congenital heart diseases
Coronary artery disease
Emergencies
emergency department visit
Emergency medical services
Emergency Medical Services - economics
Emergency Medical Services - statistics & numerical data
Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Emergency Service, Hospital - trends
Epidemiology
Female
Gastrointestinal diseases
Generalized linear models
Health care
Health Resources - statistics & numerical data
Heart
Heart Defects, Congenital - epidemiology
Heart Defects, Congenital - therapy
Heart diseases
Heart failure
Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data
Hospitals
Humans
Infant
Kidneys
Male
Morbidity
Mortality
Patients
Pediatrics
Pulmonary hypertension
Resource utilization
Respiratory diseases
Sepsis
Statistical analysis
United States - epidemiology
Utilization Review - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:Data related to the epidemiology and resource utilization of congenital heart disease (CHD)–related emergency department (ED) visits in the pediatric population is limited. The purpose of this analysis was to describe national estimates of pediatric CHD-related ED visits and evaluate medical complexity, admissions, resource utilization, and mortality. This was an epidemiological analysis of ED visit-level data from the 2006 to 2014 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample. Patients age 
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2018.07.055