1 40 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource June 2021 List Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month June 2021 List URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2021.03.028" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/​10.1016/j.pedn.2021.03.028</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A description of children dependent on long term ventilation via tracheostomy and their hospital resource use Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Journal of Pediatric Nursing Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Subject The topic of the resource Child; Mechanical ventilation; Hospitalization; Tracheostomy; Health services Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Giambra BK; Mangeot C; Benscoter DT; Britto MT Description An account of the resource PURPOSE: To describe the proportion of children with an index hospitalization in 2014 who had established long-term invasive ventilator dependence (LTVD), and determine regional variation in hospital length of stay, charges, and readmissions. DESIGN AND METHODS: Multicenter, longitudinal, retrospective cohort study using a recently established algorithm to identify children with LTVD from the Pediatric Health Information System database with an index hospitalization at least once during 2014, excluding normal newborn care or chemotherapy, and the subset with established LTVD. Hospitals were grouped by geographic regions. Analysis included descriptive statistics and multi-variable mixed modeling for length of stay, charges, and readmissions. RESULTS: Of the 615,883 unique children discharged from 45 children's hospitals in 2014, 2235 (0.4%) had established LTVD. Of these, 342 (15%) were hospitalized in the Northeast, 677 (30%) Midwest, 733 (32%) South and 481 (22%) West. Most had at least two complex chronic conditions (97%) and used a medical device for at least two body systems (71%). No statistically significant regional variation was found for length of stay, charges, or readmissions after adjustment for child demographics, admission type, disposition, primary diagnosis, ICU stay, and number of chronic conditions. CONCLUSIONS: This study characterized the population of children with LTVD hospitalized in 2014. No regional variation was found for length of stay, charges, or readmissions. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Children with established LTVD make up a small subset of all children admitted to children's hospitals however, they require substantial, costly, multifaceted care as most have additional complex chronic conditions and require multiple medical devices. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2021.03.028" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.pedn.2021.03.028</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). 2021 Benscoter DT Britto MT Child Giambra BK Health Services Hospitalization Journal of Pediatric Nursing June 2021 List Mangeot C Mechanical Ventilation Tracheostomy