Why the study?
Administrative databases are widely used to monitor rare anesthesia complications, but recording shows substantial between-center heterogeneity in adults, prompting evaluation of complication incidence and between-hospital variability in pediatric populations.
Administrative data shows a very low reported incidence of pediatric anesthesia complications with high between-hospital heterogeneity, suggesting significant underreporting and limitations in using such databases for clinical outcomes research.
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Administrative data show low pediatric anesthesia complication incidence with wide between-center variability; leaves open their validity for outcome research.
Tangel et al. (2023) studied this question.
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