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Physiological Complexity of Pediatric Surgery Between Types of Hospitals

NCT03144544 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 830830

Last updated 2018-05-14

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Summary

When considered from a provincial perspective, quantification of surgical procedures undertaken by different hospitals and healthcare networks is necessary for informing resource allocation and modelling of healthcare services. The investigators hypothesized that i) non-physiologically complex surgical procedures would account for most (\>1/2) of pediatric surgical procedures performed at both pediatric specialist hospitals and the other hospitals performing pediatric surgery, ii) surgical discharges for non-physiologically complex surgical procedures would account for most (\>1/2) in-hospital bed nights among pediatric surgical admissions at both pediatric specialist hospitals and the other hospitals performing pediatric surgery, and iii) the relative distributions of non-physiologically complex surgical procedures, but not physiologically complex procedures, would be at least moderately similar between pediatric specialist hospitals and the other hospitals performing pediatric surgery. To test these 3 hypotheses, the specific objectives of this study were to estimate i) the proportion (primary outcome) of non-physiologically complex pediatric surgical procedures, and ii) the similarity and diversity (secondary outcomes) of non-physiologically and physiologically complex surgical procedures between the pediatric specialist hospitals and the other hospitals performing pediatric surgery in Ontario, Canada.

Conditions

  • Health Services

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Pediatric surgical procedures

Eligible surgical procedures were identified using Canadian Classification of Health Interventions (CCI) therapeutic intervention codes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Hospital for Sick Children

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • James D O'Leary, MD · The Hospital for Sick Children

Eligibility

Min Age
28 Days
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-02
Primary Completion
2016-10-27
Completion
2017-06-15

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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