Inpatient outcomes among children with Down syndrome: a Kids’ Inpatient Database study

• Published in: BMC pediatrics Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 602 - 12
• Main Authors: Tsou, Po-Yang, Wang, Yu-Hsun, Tapia, Ignacio E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 06.08.2025; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Asthma; Black; Black or African American - statistics & numerical data; Cardiovascular disease; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Codes; Congenital diseases; Databases, Factual; Down syndrome; Down Syndrome - ethnology; Down Syndrome - mortality; Down Syndrome - therapy; Family income; Female; Gastroesophageal reflux; Health care; Heart; Hospital Mortality; Hospitalization; Hospitalization - economics; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Hospitals; Households; Humans; Hypothyroidism; Inequality; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Intubation; Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data; Leukemia; Male; Mortality; Patient outcomes; Pediatric research; Pediatrics; Physiological aspects; Pneumonia; Pulmonary hypertension; Race; Racial differences; Respiration, Artificial - statistics & numerical data; Retrospective Studies; Software; Statistical analysis; United States - epidemiology; Variables; White; United States; United States > US; Black; Children; Down syndrome

Children with Down Syndrome (DS) are more likely to have multi-system comorbidities leading to more frequent hospitalizations than the general population. We aim to evaluate whether racial differences contribute to hospitalization outcomes and mortality among children with DS. Hospital discharge rec...