Jahanpour Alipour, Abolfazl Payandeh, Aida Hashemi, Ali Aliabadi, Afsaneh Karimi
Physicians' Perspectives with the E-prescribing System in Five Teaching Hospitals
Applied clinical informatics
new therapeutic strategies including immune globulin intravenous emerged past two decades management botulism however impact outcomes hospitalization charges among infants aged 1 year botulism united states unknown analyzed kids inpatient database kid national inpatient sample nis inhospital outcomes charges infant botulism cases 1997 2009 demographics discharge status mortality length stay hospitalization charges reported two databases compared 1997 2009 504 infant hospitalizations captured kid 340 hospitalizations nis comparable years significant decrease observed mean length stay kid p 001 similar decrease observed nis majority patients discharged home despite initial decrease 1997 increasing trend observed kidnis mean hospital charges 2000 2009 5765956309 143171106378 p 0001p 0001 linear increasing trend evident examining mean daily hospitalization charges databases conducting subgroup analysis kid database youngest patients infantile botulism 19 months displayed highest average number procedures hospitalization p 001 highest rate mechanical ventilation p 001 compared older counterparts infant botulism cases demonstrated significant increase hospitalization charges years despite reduced length stay additionally significantly higher daily adjusted hospital charges increased rate routine discharges immune globulin intravenoustreated patients controlled studies needed define criteria costeffective use intravenous immune globulin population infant botulism