Variation in Case-Mix Adjusted Unplanned Pediatric Cardiac ICU Readmission Rates

Objectives: To identify modifiable factors leading to unplanned readmission and characterize differences in adjusted unplanned readmission rates across hospitals Design: Retrospective cohort study using prospectively collected clinical registry data Setting: Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium clinical registry. Patients: Patients admitted to a pediatric cardiac ICU at Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium hospitals. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: We examined pediatric cardiac ICU encounters in the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium registry from October 2013 to March 2016. The primary outcomes were early (

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