Geospatial Analysis of Social Determinants of Health Identifies Neighborhood Hot Spots Associated With Pediatric Intensive Care Use for Acute Respiratory Failure Requiring Mechanical Ventilation.
Geospatial Analysis of Social Determinants of Health Identifies Neighborhood Hot Spots Associated With Pediatric Intensive Care Use for Acute Respiratory Failure Requiring Mechanical Ventilation.
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10.1097/pcc.0000000000002986
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2022-08-01
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Poverty, racial bias, and disparities are linked to adverse health outcomes for children in the United States. The social vulnerability and child opportunity indices are composite measures of the social, economic, education, health, and environmental qualities that impact human health for every U.S. census tract. Composite measures of social vulnerability and child opportunity were compared for neighborhood hot spots, where pediatric intensive care unit admissions for acute respiratory failure requiring invasive mechanical ventilation were at the 90th percentile or greater per 1,000 children, versus non-hot spots. Population-based ecological study. Two urban free-standing children’s hospital pediatric intensive care units consisting of a 36-bed quaternary academic and a 56-bed tertiary community center, in Atlanta, Georgia. None. Residential addresses were geocoded and spatially joined to census tracts. Composite measures of social vulnerability and childhood opportunity, PICU readmission rates, and hospital length of stay were compared between neighborhood hot spots versus non-hot spots. There were 340/3,514 (9.7%) children who lived within a hot spot. Hot spots were associated with a higher (worse) composite social vulnerability index ranking, reflecting differences in socioeconomic status, household composition and disability, and housing type and transportation. Hot spots also had a lower (worse) composite childhood opportunity index percentile ranking, reflecting differences in the education, health and environment, and social and economic domains. Higher social vulnerability and lower childhood opportunity were not associated with readmission rates, but were associated with longer total median duration of hospital days per 1000 children in a census tract. Social determinants of health identified by geospatial analyses are associated with acute respiratory failure requiring invasive mechanical ventilation in critically ill children. Interventions addressing the neighborhood social vulnerability and child opportunity are needed to decrease disparities in intensive care admissions for acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Intubated children living in Georgia neighborhoods with higher social vulnerability and lower child opportunity are associated with longer per capita hospital stays.