Abstract
Objective
To estimate inter-center variation (ICV) in hospital length of stay (LOS) and oral feeding at discharge among infants with gastroschisis.
Study design
The Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium’s (CHNC) database was used to identify hospitalized survivors with gastroschisis. Two outcomes were evaluated: LOS and discharge without tube feedings. Hospital outcomes were evaluated in unadjusted and adjusted analyses. Generalized linear models with log link for gamma distribution were used to model LOS and logistic regression for discharge without tube feeds.
Results
For 3987 surviving infants with gastroschisis, LOS and discharge within 70 days with exclusively oral feeding both exhibited significant ICV. Differences persisted in multivariable analyses. Risk-adjusted LOS (68% difference) and oral feeding at discharge (6.4-fold difference) varied significantly between centers.
Conclusion
Hospital of care was independently associated with LOS and exclusive oral feeding at discharge rates for infants with gastroschisis. Management differences, potentially influenced by parental preferences, contributed to variation.
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Fig. 1: Inter-center variation of risk-adjusted outcomes of surviving infants with gastroschisis.
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CHNC is a consortium of multiple hospitals, each with a formal legal agreement between the hospital and the CHNC organization. Because the data registry collects multiple elements of protected health information (PHI), the legal agreements strictly prohibit the sharing of data among member hospitals or outside the organization.
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Acknowledgements
Beverly Brozanski, Jacquelyn Evans, Theresa Grover, Karna Murthy, Michael Padula, Eugenia Pallotto, Anthony Piazza, Kristina Reber, Billie Short, and ex-officio David Durand, Francine Dyes, Jeanette Asselin, are executive members of the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium, Inc., who developed and managed the CHND (thechnc.org). For more information, please contact exec@thechnc. We appreciate Mr. John Mallett and Ms. Evelyn Werbaneth’s contribution to data collection, curation, and security for this analysis.
We are indebted to the following CHNC participating institutions that serve the infants and their families; these institutions (and their site sponsors) also have invested in and continue to participate in the CHND:
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – Egleston, Atlanta, GA, USA (Anthony Piazza); Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta - Scottish Rite, Atlanta, GA, USA (Gregory Sysyn); Dell Children’s, Austin, TX, USA (Ashley Lucke, Molly Pont); Children’s of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA (Allison Black, Carl Coghill); Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA (Anne Hansen) Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, NC, USA (Eugenia Pallotto); Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA (Karna Murthy, Gustave Falciglia); Cincinnati, Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA (Beth Haberman); Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA (Tetyana Nesterenko); Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA (Thomas Bartman); Children’s Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA (Sushmita Yallapragada, Lina Chalak); Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO, USA (Danielle Smith, Stephanie Bourque); Children’s Hospital Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA (Girija Natarajann); Cook Children’s Healthcare System, Ft. Worth, TX, USA (Annie Chi, Yvette Johnson); Connecticut Children’s, Hartford, CT, USA (Annmarie Gotiolo); Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA (Lakshmi Katarkan, Kristina Reber); Riley Children’s Health, Indianapolis, TX, USA (Rebecca Rose); University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa City, IA, USA (Julie Lindower); The Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, KS, USA (Julie Weiner); Arkansas Children’s, Little Rock, AR, USA (Laura Carroll); Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, CA USA (Rachel Chapman); American Family Children’s Hospital, Madison, WI, USA (Nina Menda); Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA (Mark Weems); Children’s Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA (Ann Downey); Wisconsin Children’s Hospital, Milwaukee, WI, USA (Joanne Lagatta); UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland, CA, USA (Priscilla Joe); Oklahoma Children’s Hospital, Oklahoma, OK, USA (Trent Tipple, Patricia Williams); Children’s Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA (Nicole Birge); Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange County, CA, USA (Michel Mikhael); Advent Health for Children, Orlando, FL, USA (Narendra Dereddy, Rajan Wadhawan); Nemours Children’s Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA (Aaron Weiss); Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Michael Padula); St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Vilarmis Quinones); Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, USA (Pam Griffiths); Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Toby Yanowitz); Mayo Clinic Children’s, Rochester, MN, USA (Ellen Bendel-Stenzel); Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, USA (Con Yee Ling); Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA (Mark Speziale); Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA (Robert DiGeronimo, Elizabeth Jacobson); St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St Louis, MO, USA (Beverly Brozanski, Rakesh Rao); Children’s Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA (Ann Downey); All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL, USA (Linda Van Marter); The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Kyong-Soon Lee); Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA (Billie Lou Short); Nemours/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA (Kevin Sullivan); Brenner Children’s Hospital, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (Cherrie Welch).
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Con Yee Ling
Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium, Dover, DE, USA
Isabella Zaniletti
Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Stefanie Riddle
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Jacobson Elizabeth
Division of Neonatology, Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Stephanie G. Korff
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Angela L. Chandler
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
L. Corbin Downey
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Michael A. Padula
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Jacquelyn R. Evans
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Theresa R. Grover
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – Egleston, Atlanta, GA, USA
Karna Murthy
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Ling, C.Y., Zaniletti, I., Riddle, S. et al. Inter-center variations in inpatient outcomes for infants with gastroschisis from the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium. J Perinatol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-024-02160-6
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