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ArticlePediatric pulmonology2023

Sociodemographic factors associated with tracheostomy and mortality in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Michael A Smith, Martina A Steurer, Malini Mahendra, Matt S Zinter, Roberta L Keller

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Article in Pediatric pulmonology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Tracheostomy Outcomes in Children With Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  3. Social Capital and Pediatric Tracheostomy Outcomes.Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael A SmithDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7899-7248
Martina A SteurerDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Malini MahendraDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Matt S ZinterDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Roberta L KellerDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP) [K12]K12HD000850 · NICHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Sallie R. Permar · 1987 to 2026
$44.1M
Multidisciplinary Research Training in Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular DiseaseT32HL160508 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Steven Herbert Abman, Eric Douglas Austin · 2022 to 2026
$1.7M
Pathobiologic Transcriptional Signatures of Pulmonary Complications in Pediatric Hematopoietic Cellular TransplantationK23HL146936 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ZINTER, MATTHEW SCOTT · 2020 to 2024
$980k
NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL146936NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL160508NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD000850
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe sought to investigate how race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status relate to tracheostomy insertion and post-tracheostomy mortality among infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).

methodsThe Vizient Clinical Database/Resource Manager was queried to identify infants born ≤32 weeks with BPD admitted to US hospitals from January 2012 to December 2020. Markers of socioeconomic status were linked to patient records from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Social Determinants of Health Database. Regression models were used to assess trends in annual tracheostomy insertion rate and odds of tracheostomy insertion and post-tracheostomy mortality, adjusting for sociodemographic and clinical factors.

resultsThere were 40,021 ex-premature infants included in the study, 1614 (4.0%) of whom received a tracheostomy. Tracheostomy insertion increased from 2012 to 2017 (3.1%-4.1%), but decreased from 2018 to 2020 (3.3%-1.6%). Non-Hispanic Black infants demonstrated a 25% higher odds (aOR 1.25, 1.09-1.43) and Hispanic infants demonstrated a 20% lower odds (aOR 0.80, 0.65-0.96) of tracheostomy insertion compared with non-Hispanic White infants. Patients receiving public insurance had increased odds of tracheostomy insertion (aOR 1.15, 1.03-1.30), but there was no relation between other metrics of socioeconomic status and tracheostomy insertion within our cohort. In-hospital mortality among the tracheostomy-dependent was 14.1% and was not associated with sociodemographic factors.

conclusionsDisparities in tracheostomy insertion are not accounted for by differences in socioeconomic status or the presence of additional neonatal morbidities. Post-tracheostomy mortality does not demonstrate the same relationships. Further investigation is needed to explore the source and potential mitigators of the identified disparities.

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Bronchopulmonary DysplasiaEthnicityGestational AgeHumansInfantInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureRetrospective StudiesSociodemographic FactorsTracheostomychronic lung diseasehealthcare inequitiesprematurity

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PMCPMC10122507
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