Dantin J Roddy1, Michael C Spaeder, William Pastor, David C Stockwell, Darren Klugman. 1. 1Division of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 2Division of Critical Care, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC. 3Division of Quality Improvement, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the attributable hospital cost, both operational and departmental, and length of stay associated with unplanned extubations in children admitted to PICU and cardiac ICU. DESIGN: Retrospective, matched case-control study. SETTING: Forty-four-bed PICU and 26-bed cardiac ICU in a 303-bed tertiary care pediatric hospital. PATIENTS: Cases with an unplanned extubation were retrospectively identified from July 2011 to March 2013. Controls were PICU and cardiac ICU patients admitted over the same time period and were matched at a ratio of 2:1 for age and diagnosis. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Forty-eight unplanned extubations were analyzed. There were no differences in patient demographics between the two groups, except the control group had a higher severity of illness as illustrated by a larger Paediatric Index of Mortality II Risk of Mortality. Median total hospital costs were higher in those patients with unplanned extubations as compared with controls ($101,310 vs $64,618; p < 0.001). Patients with an unplanned extubation had longer median ICU length of stay (10 d vs 4.5 d; p < 0.001) and hospital length of stay (16.5 d vs 10 d, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Pediatric patients with unplanned extubations have an associated increase in hospital costs ($36,692/case) and length of stay (6.5 d/case) as compared with age and diagnosis-matched controls. Further efforts are warranted to establish data-driven benchmarks and establishment of unplanned extubations as a critical metric for ICU quality.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the attributable hospital cost, both operational and departmental, and length of stay associated with unplanned extubations in children admitted to PICU and cardiac ICU. DESIGN: Retrospective, matched case-control study. SETTING: Forty-four-bed PICU and 26-bed cardiac ICU in a 303-bed tertiary care pediatric hospital. PATIENTS: Cases with an unplanned extubation were retrospectively identified from July 2011 to March 2013. Controls were PICU and cardiac ICUpatients admitted over the same time period and were matched at a ratio of 2:1 for age and diagnosis. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Forty-eight unplanned extubations were analyzed. There were no differences in patient demographics between the two groups, except the control group had a higher severity of illness as illustrated by a larger Paediatric Index of Mortality II Risk of Mortality. Median total hospital costs were higher in those patients with unplanned extubations as compared with controls ($101,310 vs $64,618; p < 0.001). Patients with an unplanned extubation had longer median ICU length of stay (10 d vs 4.5 d; p < 0.001) and hospital length of stay (16.5 d vs 10 d, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Pediatric patients with unplanned extubations have an associated increase in hospital costs ($36,692/case) and length of stay (6.5 d/case) as compared with age and diagnosis-matched controls. Further efforts are warranted to establish data-driven benchmarks and establishment of unplanned extubations as a critical metric for ICU quality.
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