Journal of hospital medicine : an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine
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General hospitals (GH) provide inpatient care for the majority of hospitalized children in the United States, yet the majority of hospital pediatrics research is conducted at freestanding children's hospitals. ⋯ There were an estimated 5,263,218 pediatric hospitalizations in 2019, including 3,757,601 neonatal and 1,505,617 nonneonatal hospital stays. Overall, 88.6% (n = 4,661,288) of hospitalizations occurred at GH, including 97.6% of neonatal hospitalizations and 65.9% of nonneonatal hospitalizations. 11.4% (n = 601,930) of hospitalizations occurred at freestanding children's hospitals, including 2.4% (n = 88,313) of neonatal hospitalizations and 34.1% (n = 513,616) of nonneonatal hospitalizations. In total, 98.9% of complicated birth hospitalizations and 66.0% of neonatal nonbirth hospitalizations occurred at GH. Among nonneonatal stays, 85.2% of mental health hospitalizations, 63.5% of medical hospitalizations, and 61.3% of surgical hospitalizations occurred at GH.