ArticleThe Journal of pediatrics2018
Early Childhood Inpatient Costs of Critical Congenital Heart Disease.
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- Inpatient Resource Utilization for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome from Birth Through Fontan.Pediatric cardiology · 2024Article
- Cardiac Axis in Early Gestation and Congenital Heart Disease.Current cardiology reviews · 2024Review
- The impact of pediatric congenital heart disease on primary teeth structure: a histological study.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2023Article
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- Hospital resource utilization in a national cohort of functionally single ventricle patients undergoing surgical treatment.JTCVS open · 2023Article
- Inpatient costs of congenital heart surgery in China: results from the National Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2023Article
- Cumulative In-Hospital Costs Associated With Single-Ventricle Palliation.JACC. Advances · 2022Article
- Medicaid healthcare expenditures for infants with birth defects potentially related to Zika virus infection in North Carolina, 2011-2016.Birth defects research · 2022Article
- Human phenotype ontology annotation and cluster analysis for pulmonary atresia to unravel clinical outcomes.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Resource Use and Outcomes of Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Admissions: 2003 to 2016.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Article
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Infants Undergoing Truncus Arteriosus Repair.The Annals of thoracic surgery · 2021Article
- Pediatric and congenital heart disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: the triple threat.World journal of pediatric surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess longitudinal estimates of inpatient costs through early childhood in patients with critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs), for whom reliable estimates are scarce, using a population-based cohort of clinically validated CCHD cases. STUDY
designLongitudinal retrospective cohort of infants with CCHDs live born from 1997 to 2012 in Utah. Cases identified from birth defect registry data were linked to inpatient discharge abstracts and vital records to track inpatient days and costs through age 10 years. Costs were adjusted for inflation and discounted by 3% per year to generate present value estimates. Multivariable models identified infant and maternal factors potentially associated with higher resource utilization and were used to calculate adjusted costs by defect type.
resultsThe final statewide cohort included 1439 CCHD cases among 803 509 livebirths (1.8/1000). The average cost per affected child through age 10 years was $136 682 with a median of $74 924 because of a small number of extremely high cost children; costs were highest for pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Inpatient costs increased by 1.6% per year during the study period. A single birth year cohort (~50 000 births/year) had estimated expenditures of $11 902 899 through age 10 years. Extrapolating to the US population, inpatient costs for a single birth year cohort through age 10 years were ~$1 billion.
conclusionsInpatient costs for CCHDs throughout childhood are high and rising. These revised estimates will contribute to comparative effectiveness research aimed at improving the value of care on a patient and population level.
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