Prediction of Pediatric Critical Care Resource Utilization for Disaster Triage.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Pediatric protocols to guide allocation of limited resources during a disaster lack data to validate their use. The 2011 Pediatric Emergency Mass Critical Care Task Force recommended that expected duration of critical care be incorporated into resource allocation algorithms. We aimed to determine whether currently available pediatric illness severity scores can predict duration of critical care resource use.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Seattle Children's Hospital.

Patients

PICU patients admitted 2016-2018 for greater than or equal to 12 hours (n = 3,206).

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

We developed logistic and linear regression models in two-thirds of the cohort to predict need for and duration of PICU

SUBMITTER: Killien EY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7199765 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature