Common Diagnoses and Costs in Pediatric Hospitalization in the US

JAMA Pediatr. 2022 Mar 1;176(3):316-318. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.5171.

Authors

Sunitha V Kaiser¹, Jonathan Rodean², Eric R Coon³, Sanjay Mahant⁴, Peter J Gill⁴, JoAnna K Leyenaar⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.
² Independent researcher, Overland Park, Kansas.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study ranks the prevalent diagnoses among hospitalized children and related costs by hospital type.

MeSH terms

Child
Costs and Cost Analysis
Health Care Costs
Hospital Costs*
Hospitalization*
Humans
Infant
Retrospective Studies