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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000002603" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000002603</a>
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Variation in Pediatric Palliative Care Allocation Among Critically Ill Children in the United States
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Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
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2020
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critical care; morbidity; palliative care; pediatrics; quality of life; screening
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O'Keefe S; Maddux AB; Bennett KS; Youngwerth J; Czaja AS
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OBJECTIVES: The objectives are as follows: 1) estimate palliative care consult rates and trends among critically ill children and 2) characterize which children receive palliative care consults, including those meeting previously proposed ICU-specific palliative care screening criteria. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort. SETTING: Fifty-two United States children's hospitals participating in the Pediatric Health Information Systems database. PATIENTS: Hospitalized children with nonneonatal ICU admissions from 2007 to 2018. MEASUREMENTS: The primary outcome was palliative care consultation, as identified by the palliative care International Classification of Disease code. Patient characteristics and outcomes were compared between those with and without palliative care. We used a mixed-effects multivariable model to estimate the independent association between the palliative care and patient characteristics accounting for institution and subject clustering. Hospitalizations were categorized into three mutually exclusive groups for comparative analyses: 1) meeting ICU-specific palliative care criteria, 2) presence of a complex chronic condition not in ICU-specific palliative care criteria, or 3) not meeting ICU-specific palliative care or complex chronic condition criteria. Rates and trends of palliative care consultation were estimated including variation among institutions and variation among subcategories of ICU-specific palliative care criteria. RESULTS: The study cohort included 740,890 subjects with 1,024,666 hospitalizations. About 1.36% of hospitalizations had a palliative care consultation. Palliative care consult was independently associated with older age, female sex, government insurance, inhospital mortality, and ICU-specific palliative care or complex chronic condition criteria. Among the hospitalizations, 30% met ICU-specific palliative care criteria, 40% complex chronic condition criteria, and 30% neither. ICU-specific palliative care patients received more mechanical ventilation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, had longer hospital and ICU lengths of stay, and had higher inhospital mortality (p < 0.001). Palliative care utilization increased over the study period with considerable variation between the institutions especially in the ICU-specific palliative care cohort and its subgroups. CONCLUSIONS: Palliative care consultation for critically ill children in the United States is low. Palliative care utilization is increasing but considerable variation exists across institutions, suggesting inequity in palliative care allocation among this vulnerable population. Future studies should evaluate factors influencing allocation of palliative care among critically ill children in the United States and the drivers of differences between the institutional practices.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000002603" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/pcc.0000000000002603</a>
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2020
Bennett KS
Critical Care
Czaja AS
December 2020 List
Maddux AB
Morbidity
O'Keefe S
Palliative Care
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Pediatrics
Quality Of Life
Screening
Youngwerth J