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Mortality-Related Resource Utilization In The Inpatient Care Of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome., David A. Danford, Quentin Karels, Aparna Kulkarni, Aysha Hussain, Yunbin Xiao, Shelby Kutty
Mortality-Related Resource Utilization In The Inpatient Care Of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome., David A. Danford, Quentin Karels, Aparna Kulkarni, Aysha Hussain, Yunbin Xiao, Shelby Kutty
Journal Articles: Pediatrics
BACKGROUND: Quantifying resource utilization in the inpatient care of congenital heart diease is clinically relevant. Our purpose is to measure the investment of inpatient care resources to achieve survival in hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), and to determine how much of that investment occurs in hospitalizations that have a fatal outcome, the mortality-related resource utilization fraction (MRRUF).
METHODS: A collaborative administrative database, the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) containing data for 43 children's hospitals, was queried by primary diagnosis for HLHS admissions of patients ≤21 years old during 2004-2013. Institution, patient age, inpatient deaths, billed charges (BC) and length of …