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| Title |
Hospital discharges for fever and neutropenia in pediatric cancer patients: United States, 2009
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| Published in |
BMC Cancer, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12885-015-1413-8 |
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| Authors |
Emily L. Mueller, Kelly J. Walkovich, Rajen Mody, Achamyeleh Gebremariam, Matthew M. Davis |
| Abstract |
Fever and neutropenia (FN) is a common complication of pediatric cancer treatment, but hospital utilization patterns for this condition are not well described. Data were analyzed from the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), an all-payer US hospital database, for 2009. Pediatric FN patients were identified using: age ≤19 years, urgent or emergent admit type, non-transferred, and a combination of ICD-9-CM codes for fever and neutropenia. Sampling weights were used to permit national inferences. Pediatric cancer patients accounted for 1.5% of pediatric hospital discharges in 2009 (n = 110,967), with 10.1% of cancer-related discharges meeting FN criteria (n = 11,261). Two-fifths of FN discharges had a "short length of stay" (SLOS) of ≤3 days, which accounted for approximately $65.5 million in hospital charges. Upper respiratory infection (6.0%) and acute otitis media (AOM) (3.7%) were the most common infections associated with SLOS. Factors significantly associated with SLOS included living in the Midwest region (OR = 1.65, 1.22-2.24) or West region (OR 1.54, 1.11-2.14) versus Northeast, having a diagnosis of AOM (OR = 1.39, 1.03-1.87) or viral infection (OR = 1.63, 1.18-2.25) versus those without those comorbidities, and having a soft tissue sarcoma (OR = 1.47, 1.05-2.04), Hodgkin lymphoma (OR = 2.33, 1.62-3.35), or an ovarian/testicular tumor (OR = 1.76, 1.05-2.95) compared with patients without these diagnoses. FN represents a common precipitant for hospitalizations among pediatric cancer patients. SLOS admissions are rarely associated with serious infections, but contribute substantially to the burden of hospitalization for pediatric FN. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 46 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 9 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 7% |
| Researcher | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 15% |
| Unknown | 11 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 24 | 52% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 11% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 2% |
| Psychology | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 10 | 22% |
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