Paediatric anaesthesia & critical care
Timely Primary Care Follow-Up Following Hospitalization for Pediatric Critical Illness
Authors' conclusion
In this US cohort of > 375,000 critically ill children with public or private insurance, less than one-third had primary care follow-up within 1 week of hospital discharge.
Study context
- Population
- Children aged 0–18 years with a PICU hospitalization, US, January 2016 to December 2019eligible PICU hospitalizations
- Participants
- 333,920 vs 41,223
- Exposure
- Publicly vs privately insured children
- Publicly insuredn = 333,920
- Privately insuredn = 41,223
- Outcome
- Primary care follow-up after PICU hospitalization discharge
- Follow-up
- 7 days
Methodological detailsclaims database, multivariable logistic regression
- Claims database
- Multivariable logistic regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Primary care follow-up within 7 days of discharge
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Subspecialty follow-up · 7 days
Any outpatient follow-up · 7 days
Factors associated with primary care follow-up (adjusted)
- Younger age and lack of complex chronic conditions associated with higher likelihood of primary care follow-up
- Adjusted analyses
Original publication
Timely Primary Care Follow-Up Following Hospitalization for Pediatric Critical Illness. Chest. Published 23 September 2025. doi:10.
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