Factors associated with poor compliance amongst hospitalized, predominantly adolescent pediatric Crohn’s disease patients

Autor: Nathaniel A. Cohen, Dejan M. Micic, Atsushi Sakuraba
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Annals of Medicine, Vol 54, Iss 1, Pp 886-892 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 07853890
1365-2060
0785-3890
DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2022.2057582
Popis: Background Compliance with medical treatment is vital for the control of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and prevention of disease complications and is an issue in paediatric patients. We explored patient-related factors associated with non-compliance in a large database of predominantly adolescent, hospitalized paediatric Crohn’s disease (CD) patients.Patients/Materials and Methods We analyzed data from the Kid’s Inpatient Database (KID) the largest publicly available all-payer paediatric inpatient care database in the United States. All available paediatric CD patients non-electively admitted in 2016 were included. CD patients were extracted using the standard international classification of diseases (ICD) 10 codes. Data suggesting non-compliance, comorbidities and surgical procedures related to CD were similarly extracted.Results 2439 paediatric CD patients with non-elective admission were included in the analysis. 2 280 patients (94%) were adolescents. Of the total cohort, 113 patients (4.6%) had a diagnosis of non-compliance. In univariate analyses, smoking (15.9 vs. 5.5%, p
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