Hospital Readmissions After Pediatric Trauma

Objectives: To determine the rate, etiology, and timing of unplanned and planned hospital readmissions and to identify risk factors for unplanned readmission in children who survive a hospitalization for trauma. Design: Multicenter retrospective cohort study of a probabilistically linked dataset from the National Trauma Data Bank and the Pediatric Health Information System database, 2007–2012. Setting: Twenty-nine U.S. children’s hospitals. Patients: 51,591 children (

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