Hospitals’ Diversity of Diagnosis Groups and Associated Costs of Care
| Autor: | Troy Richardson, Jay G. Berry, Paul J. Chung, Matthew Hall, Chris Feudtner, Samir S. Shah, Eyal Cohen, Vincent W. Chiang, Elizabeth Casto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent MEDLINE Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030225 pediatrics Outcome Assessment Health Care Severity of illness Health care Confidence Intervals Ethnicity medicine Humans Hospital Costs Young adult Child Hospitals Teaching Diagnosis-Related Groups Retrospective Studies Inpatient care business.industry Age Factors Infant Newborn Infant Retrospective cohort study Hospitals Pediatric Confidence interval Hospitalization Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Emergency medicine Regression Analysis Female business Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | Pediatrics. 147:e2020018101 |
| ISSN: | 1098-4275 0031-4005 |
| DOI: | 10.1542/peds.2020-018101 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Hospitals treating patients with greater diagnosis diversity may have higher fixed and overhead costs. We assessed the relationship between hospitals’ diagnosis diversity and cost per hospitalization for children. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of 1 654 869 all-condition hospitalizations for children ages 0 to 21 years from 2816 hospitals in the Kids’ Inpatient Database 2016. Mean hospital cost per hospitalization, Winsorized and log-transformed, was assessed for freestanding children’s hospitals (FCHs), nonfreestanding children’s hospitals (NFCHs), and nonchildren’s hospitals (NCHs). Hospital diagnosis diversity index (HDDI) was calculated by using the D-measure of diversity in Shannon–Wiener entropy index from 1254 diagnosis and severity-of-illness groups distinguished with 3M Health’s All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups. Log-normal multivariable models were derived to regress hospital type on cost per hospitalization, adjusting for hospital-level HDDI in addition to patient-level demographic (eg, age, race and ethnicity) and clinical (eg, chronic conditions) characteristics and hospital teaching status. RESULTS: Admission counts were 383 789 (23.2%) in FCHs, 588 463 (35.6%) in NFCHs, and 682 617 (41.2%) in NCHs. Unadjusted mean cost per hospitalization was $10 757 (95% confidence interval [CI]: $9451 to $12 243) in FCHs, $6264 (95% CI: $5830 to $6729) in NFCHs, and $4192 (95% CI: $4121 to $4265) in NCHs. HDDI was significantly (P CONCLUSIONS: Greater diagnosis diversity was associated with increased cost per hospitalization and should be considered when assessing associated costs of inpatient care for pediatric patients. |
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