Inpatient Childhood Asthma Treatment

Abstract

Hospitals providing medical education to pediatricians and safety net care do so without increasing LOS or cost of care for pediatric asthma.

HIV/AIDS length of stay in Portugal under financial constraints: a longitudinal study for public hospitals, 2009–2014

“…LOS has been analysed using many different methods. For example, Barbour et al studied changes among HIV/AIDS inpatients using a multivariable linear regression model [43], while Huang et al analysed LOS and costs based on a generalized linear mixed model [44]. Other authors, like Wang et al, analysed maternity LOS from a two-component Poisson mixed model [45].…”

Racial Disparities in Children Hospitalized with Asthma at Academic Childrens' Hospitals

“…46,47 Third, teaching hospitals introduce selection bias and generalizability concerns, for they have a higher proportion of asthmatic patients with Medicaid or no insurance 45 and more minority patients. 48 The different populations at academic centers may modify the associations, but academic medical centers are also the places where evidence-based practices are expected to occur. Fourth, incomplete data were available for medication use, including if medications were used prior to admission or if home medications may have been used while an inpatient, which may be reflected in the difference in bronchodilator use even when controlling for hospital.…”

Asthma costs and social impact

“…An asthmatic child with an exacerbation of his/her symptoms, usually, loses from 3 to 5 school days and at least one of the parents/caregivers loses the same working time [2, 47, 48]. Therefore, children with asthma have more indirect costs than older asthmatics, as the parents missed work-days sum to the other expenses as an indirect cost.…”