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ArticleAcademic pediatrics2022

Body Mass Index Category and Adverse Events in Hospitalized Children.

Elizabeth Eby Halvorson, Danielle P Thurtle, Ashley Easter, James Lovato, David C Stockwell

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Elizabeth Eby HalvorsonDepartment of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine (EE Halvorson and A Easter), Winston-Salem, NC. Electronic address: ehalvors@wakehealth.edu.
Danielle P ThurtleDepartment of Pediatrics, Sanford Health (DP Thurtle), Bismarck, ND.
Ashley EasterDepartment of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine (EE Halvorson and A Easter), Winston-Salem, NC.
James LovatoDepartment of Biostatistics, Wake Forest School of Medicine (J Lovato), Winston-Salem, NC.
David C StockwellDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (DC Stockwell), Baltimore, Md.
Wake Forest University · USJohns Hopkins University · USSanford Health · US

Funding

Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR001420 · NCATS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ARD, JAMY D, FOLEY, KRISTIE L · 2015 to 2023
$32.3M
Adverse Events in Pediatric Inpatients with Obesity: Comparing the GAPPS Trigger Tool with Voluntary Event ReportingR03HS026038 · AHRQ · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HALVORSON, ELIZABETH EBY · 2018 to 2019
$100k
AHRQ HHS R03 HS026038NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001420
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo identify associations between patient body mass index (BMI) category and adverse event (AE) rate, severity, and preventability in a cohort of children discharged from an academic children's hospital.

methodsWe identified patients 2 to 17 years old consecutively discharged between June and October 2018. Patient age, sex, height, and weight were used to categorize patients as having underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obesity. We used the Global Assessment of Pediatrics Patient Safety trigger tool to identify AEs, which were scored for harm and preventability. The primary outcome was the rate of AEs; these were compared with Poisson regression. We used multivariable logistic regression to model event preventability.

resultsWe reviewed 834 encounters in 680 subjects; 51 (7.5%) had underweight, 367 (54.0%) had normal weight, 112 (16.5%) had overweight, and 150 (22.1%) had obesity. Our cohort experienced 270 AEs, with an overall rate of 69.7 (61.8-78.5) AEs per 1000 patient-days: 67.7 (46.4-98.7) in underweight, 70.0 (59.4-82.4) in normal weight, 58.6 (42.5-79.7) in overweight, and 80.4 (62.5-103.6) in obesity, P = .46. No associations were seen between BMI category and AE severity. Children with obesity had an increased rate of preventable AEs (P < .01), but this association did not persist in the multivariable model.

conclusionsIn this single-center study, we did not find associations between BMI category and rate, severity, or preventability of AEs.

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Body Mass IndexChild, HospitalizedMedical ErrorsAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMaleObesityOverweightRetrospective StudiesThinnesshospital medicineobesitypatient safety

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PMCPMC11716279
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