Table. Hospital Readmissions and Costs After Pediatric Tracheostomya.
| Year | Total admissions | LRTI admissions with tracheostomy in placeb | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. patients | Cost | Cost per patient, median (IQR) | Cost | Cost per patient, median (IQR) | |||||||
| GBP | USD | No. admissions | GBP | USD | GBP | USD | No. admissions | GBP | USD | ||
| 1 | 1122 | 36 176 809 | 49 491 656 | 6511 | 15 908 (6576-39 198) | 21 762 (8996-53 622) | 8 446 138 | 11 554 072 | 1213 | 6637 (2760-19 339) | 9080 (3776-26 457) |
| 2 | 824 | 14 275 934 | 19 530 528 | 3764 | 7428 (2744-18 090) | 10 161 (3795-24 747) | 3 203 246 | 4 381 715 | 620 | 4848 (1836-11 451) | 6632 (2512-15 665) |
| 3 | 673 | 7 934 059 | 10 854 028 | 2552 | 5610 (2075-14 834) | 7675 (2839-20 293) | 1 736 318 | 2 375 106 | 385 | 5094 (2369-12 652) | 6969 (3241-17 308) |
| 4 | 504 | 5 073 596 | 6 940 946 | 1677 | 5200 (1751-11 772) | 7113 (2396-16 104) | 1 037 895 | 1 419 895 | 226 | 5331 (1443-10 084) | 7292 (1974-13 794) |
| 5 | 322 | 2 993 132 | 4 094 762 | 1017 | 3402 (1446-10 677) | 4654 (1978-14 605) | 472 394 | 646 260 | 109 | 4518 (1350-9306) | 6181 (1847-12 730) |
| 6 | 183 | 1 560 704 | 2 135 116 | 524 | 3548 (1430-9652) | 4854 (1956-13 204) | 359 127 | 491 305 | 59 | 8434 (2890-21 515) | 11 538 (3953-29 430) |
| 7 | 63 | 474 868 | 474 868 | 165 | 2985 (1164-9455) | 4084 (1592-12 933) | 75 079 | 102 706 | 18 | 5331 (1922-8854) | 7292 (2629-12 111) |
Abbreviations: GBP, British pound sterling; LRTI, lower respiratory tract infection; USD, US dollars.
a
The data present the number of admissions with attributed costs that could be used in the costing analysis. n = 1186. GBP converted to USD on January 17, 2022.
b
Defined by International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes J20-J22 (n = 1182).