Risk Factors of Readmission to Hospital for Pneumonia in Children

Hong, Yea-Ji; Choi, Eom Ji; Park, Sin-Ae

doi:10.14776/piv.2017.24.3.146

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“…A total of 113 references were reviewed as full-text and a further 75 were excluded against selection criteria. Four studies were excluded as they were published in Chinese,15 Korean,16 Portugese17 and Spanish 18. Studies that mixed paediatric and adult patients19–21 or mixed planned and unplanned readmissions22 or mixed Emergency Department presentations and hospital readmissions23–25 were excluded.…”

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Risk factors associated with paediatric unplanned hospital readmissions: a systematic review

et al. 2019

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ObjectiveTo synthesise evidence on risk factors associated with paediatric unplanned hospital readmissions (UHRs).DesignSystematic review.Data sourceCINAHL, EMBASE (Ovid) and MEDLINE from 2000 to 2017.Eligibility criteriaStudies published in English with full-text access and focused on paediatric All-cause, Surgical procedure and General medical condition related UHRs were included.Data extraction and synthesisCharacteristics of the included studies, examined variables and the statistically significant risk factors were extracted. Two reviewers independently assessed study quality based on six domains of potential bias. Pooling of extracted risk factors was not permitted due to heterogeneity of the included studies. Data were synthesised using content analysis and presented in narrative form.ResultsThirty-six significant risk factors were extracted from the 44 included studies and presented under three health condition groupings. For All-cause UHRs, ethnicity, comorbidity and type of health insurance were the most frequently cited factors. For Surgical procedure related UHRs, specific surgical procedures, comorbidity, length of stay (LOS), age, the American Society of Anaesthesiologists class, postoperative complications, duration of procedure, type of health insurance and illness severity were cited more frequently. The four most cited risk factors associated with General medical condition related UHRs were comorbidity, age, health service usage prior to the index admission and LOS.ConclusionsThis systematic review acknowledges the complexity of readmission risk prediction in paediatric populations. This review identified four risk factors across all three health condition groupings, namely comorbidity; public health insurance; longer LOS and patients<12 months or between 13–18 years. The identification of risk factors, however, depended on the variables examined by each of the included studies. Consideration should be taken into account when generalising reported risk factors to other institutions. This review highlights the need to develop a standardised set of measures to capture key hospital discharge variables that predict unplanned readmission among paediatric patients.

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