Open AccessPreadmission Diet and Zip Code Influences the Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Course for Infants with Severe Respiratory Illness (N = 187)
Author(s) -
Mara L. Leimanis-Laurens,
Amina Jaji,
Jessica Montgomery,
Jennifer Jess,
Karen Ferguson,
Jessica Parker,
Dominic Sanfilippo,
Surender Rajasekaran
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pediatric intensive care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2146-4618
pISSN - 2146-4626
DOI - 10.1055/s-0040-1712920
Subject(s) - medicine , ranitidine , pediatrics , respiratory illness , critical illness , zip code , pediatric intensive care unit , emergency medicine , intensive care unit , intensive care medicine , respiratory system , critically ill , economics , demographic economics
We examined preadmission diet and zip code in infants with severe respiratory illness in the pediatric critical care unit. Patients aged 0 to 5 months admitted to the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital from January 2011 to May 2017 ( N = 187), as exclusively formula, exclusively breastfed or mixed diet were included. Formula-fed infants ( n = 88; 47%) clustered to zip codes with lower median incomes (<0.005), used public insurance as their payer type ( p < 0.005), and were prescribed more ranitidine ( p < 0.05) on admission.