Research Article
Infantile Hemangioma Treated with Propranolol Readmission Trends, Complications of Therapy, and Cost: A PHIS Database Study
Table 1
Demographics and hospital stay characteristics for infantile hemangioma admissions.
| | Number of patients (%) |
| Total | 2290 | Female | 1610 (70.3) | Age | | 3 weeks to 2 months | 191 (8.3) | 2 months to 4 months | 232 (10.1) | 4 months to 6 months | 613 (26.8) | 6 months to 1 year | 1254 (54.8) | Race | | White | 1444 (63.1) | Black | 97 (4.2) | Asian | 68 (3.0) | Hispanic or Latino | 392 (17.1) | Other | 289 (12.6) | Cost in US dollars per admission | $5,158.4 [$3,258.5-$8,560.1] | Neurologic and neuromuscular flag | 90 (3.9) | Respiratory flag | 69 (3.0) | Hospital stay | | Mortality | 0 (0.0) | Average LOS (days) [CI] | 2 [2, 3] | ICU admission | 213 (9.30) | Readmission | 368 (16.07) |
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Abbreviations: length of stay = LOS; intensive care unit = ICU.
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