Interhospital variation of inpatient versus outpatient pediatric burn treatment after emergency department evaluation
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Denise I. Garcia, Aaron P. Lesher, Corinne Corrigan, H. Ryan Howard, Robert A. Cina
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Abstract
Background
Approaches to burn care in the pediatric population are highly variable and can be targeted as a potential measure in cost-reduction. We hypothesized that institutions vary significantly in treatment allocation of nonsevere burns to either inpatient or outpatient care.
Methods
We queried the PHIS database for fiscal year 2017 to quantify small pediatric burn admissions and Emergency Department visits (ED). The ICD-10 code T31.0 was used to identify burns involving
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