Stephane Savanah
The concept possession hypothesis of self-consciousness
Consciousness and cognition
pediatric researchers use agency healthcare research quality ahrq kids inpatient database kid national inpatient sample nis analyze national resource use outcomes hospitalized children inherent kidnis sampling design differences may yield disparate findings compared discharge counts length stay los kid nis common rare reasons hospitalization retrospective analysis differences discharges counts geometric mean los children ages 020 years kid nis 2019 measured normal newborns 331 additional reasons admission distinguished allpayer refined diagnosis related groups aprdrg categorized deciles annual discharge volume followed ahrq instructions data clustering stratification weighting accommodate kid nis designs including random samples 80 20 pediatric discharges respectively per hospital kidnis differences national estimates total annual discharge counts differed 05 normal newborns 37 admission reasons children kidnis differences remained small aside reasons admission two lowest volume deciles 95 sd 79 admission volumes 200520 411 sd 642 volumes 200 kidnis los differences twolowest volume deciles 79 sd 71 260 sd 293 respectively although kidnis differences discharge counts los small highvolume admissions differences increased reasons admission annual discharge volumes approximately 500 less study populations discharge counts 500 kid may preferred given higher sampling discharges per hospital