Tracheostomy placement and prolonged hospital stay predict readmission in paediatric ARDS
Half of readmissions occurred within 61 days of discharge, US doctors report.
Among hospitalised children with acute respiratory distress syndrome who survive to discharge, the presence of a chronic condition, tracheostomy placement during admission, and hospitalisation of 14 days or longer are associated with readmission within a year, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.
Dr Garrett Keim, from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues examined one-year readmission rates among survivors of paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and the associations with three index hospitalisation factors in a retrospective cohort study.
