Objective To use information about prevalence, cost, and variation in resource utilization to
prioritize comparative effectiveness research topics in hospital pediatrics. Design …

Importance Identifying high priority pediatric conditions is important for setting a research
agenda in hospital pediatrics that will benefit families, clinicians, and the health care system …

Importance Practice variation is believed to be a driver of excess health care spending,
although few objective data exist to guide the prioritization of comparative effectiveness …

Objective. Because of the unique mission of freestanding children's hospitals, higher costs
have generally been accepted; however, increasing health care costs and the impetus for …

Objective To compare inpatient resource use trends for healthy children and children with
chronic health conditions of varying degrees of medical complexity. Design Retrospective …

BACKGROUND. Systematic reviews have demonstrated consistently decreased length of
stay and costs in internal medicine hospitalist systems. Systematic reviews of pediatric …

Importance Timely and efficient access to hospital care is essential for the health and well-
being of children. As insurance networks, accountable care organizations, and alternative …

BACKGROUND Children may be hospitalized at general hospitals or freestanding children's
hospitals. Knowledge about how inpatient care differs at these hospitals is important to …

BACKGROUND Despite estimates that waste constitutes up to 20% of healthcare
expenditures in the United States, overuse of tests and therapies is significantly under …

OBJECTIVE: To describe recent, 10-year trends in pediatric hospital resource use with and
without a psychiatric diagnosis and examine how these trends vary by type of psychiatric …