Retrospective Analysis in Quality of Care Measures in Pediatric Adenotonsillectomy Patients

Vidya Raman1,000,000 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to interrogate the Partners for Kids (PFK) and the pediatric health information (PHIS) databases in addition to our own perioperative Nationwide Children's data base to look at outcomes, resource utilization, and cost trends for adenotonsillectomy in the nationally versus locally. The investigators also want compare Nationwide Children's to other regional and national tertiary pediatric institutions.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

1,000,000

Conditions

Adenotonsillectomy

Interventions

Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS), Partners for Kids (PFK) and Nationwide Children's Hospital Perioperative DatabaseOTHER

Utilizing these databases to assess standards for quality of care measures in adenotonsillectomy patients.

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients who undergone an adenotonsillectomy, tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy during the past 2 years (2013-2015) who have ICD-9 codes (International Classification of Diseases) in the databases Exclusion Criteria: * Non-adenotonsillectomy patients

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Gather data from PHIS and contrast local databases (PFK versus Nationwide Children's)

The significance is to identify outcome measures, resource utilization, and cost of adenotonsillectomy nationally as well as locally.

Time frame: after patient's discharge, an expected average between 6 months to 2 years

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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