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June 3, 2019Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Age-Specific Distribution of Diagnosis and Outcomes of Children Admitted to ICUs: A Population-Based Cohort Study*

Minyoung Jung Hye‐Jeong Park Danbee Kang Jinkyeong Park Kyeongman Jeon Chi Ryang Chung Jeong Hoon Yang Yang Hyun Cho Gee Young Suh Eliseo Güallar Juhee Cho Joongbum Cho

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This study aims to evaluate trends in causes of diagnosis, procedures, and outcomes of pediatric ICU admissions by age.
Population-based retrospective cohort study of pediatric ICU admissions in South Korea.
Data from Korean National Health Insurance covering 38,684 admissions from 32,443 pediatric patients.
Exclusions include neonatal admissions and non-disease related admissions.
Overall age-standardized admission rate was 75.9 admissions per 100,000 person-years.
Congenital malformations were the most common diagnosis, with significant age-related differences in admissions.
In-hospital mortality was 5.8%, with varying patterns of diagnosis and outcomes by age.

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Population-based cohort study shows varying admission patterns and outcomes among children in ICUs, suggesting targeted care improvements.

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Jung et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a21ab84153b2036cbf1f2bc https://doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000001978

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