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Question: Among children who died in children’s hospitals, what clinical and demographic characteristics differed between those who received palliative care services and those who did not?
Question type: Descriptive
Study design: Retrospective cohort
Researchers from the University of Utah queried the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database (a collaboration of >40 US children’s hospitals) to analyze trends in the use of palliative care (PC) for terminally ill children. Included were children <18 years old who died ≥5 days after admission to a PHIS hospital during a 10-year period (2001–2011). ICD-9 and clinical transaction codes were used to identify diagnostic categories, interventions, receipt of services, and charges. These data were compared in study children who did, or did not, receive PC.
Data were …
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