Journal of hospital medicine : an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine
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Young adults (YA) with childhood-onset chronic conditions-particularly YA with cystic fibrosis (CF), congenital heart disease (CHD), and sickle cell disease (SCD)-continue to have pediatric hospital admissions. Factors associated with this continued pediatric hospital use remain underexplored. ⋯ YA with SCD used pediatric hospitals less than YA with either CF or CHD. Coupled with our findings that Black YA with CF and CHD had less pediatric hospital use, these data may reflect systematic racial differences within pediatric to adult healthcare transition programs.
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Significant variation in coding intensity among hospitals has been observed and can lead to reimbursement inequities and inadequate risk adjustment for quality measures. Reliable tools to quantify hospital coding intensity are needed. ⋯ However, it has the advantage of inferring hospital coding intensity without the strong association with comorbidity that the mean number of discharge diagnoses has. Our measure may serve as a useful tool to compare coding intensity across institutions.