Child's home address helps predict risk of readmission to hospital - 0 views
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Kahn, M
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senior investigator of the Cincinnati Children's study
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The researchers geocoded home addresses (grouping households by geographic area) and constructed the social risk index
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included extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rates.
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601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated a
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39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
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high risk
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category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room
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medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room.
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. Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
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standardize care for child asthma sufferers do little to account for how socioeconomic disparities affect asthma.
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help to target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.
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"Early identification of children at increased risk could allow additional assessments and services to be put in place prior to discharge to improve patient outcomes. It also could
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other asthma outcomes and other conditions, such as diabetes mellitus
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Doctor Beck and MD Kahn from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Knowing class, address, geography, and parents education can all help tell if a child will have asthma and be readmitted to the hospital
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