Surgical Treatment of Myelomeningocele: Year 2000 Hospitalization, Outcome, and Cost Analysis in the US

Overview

Journal Childs Nerv Syst

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2007 Jun 7

PMID 17551742

Citations 9

Authors

Anthony H Sin

Mahmoud Rashidi

Gloria Caldito

Anil Nanda

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Abstract

Objective: To review cases of surgical repair for myelomeningocele (MMC) using a large inpatient database from the year 2000.

Materials And Methods: The Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) database with 7.45 million patient admissions for 2000 was retrospectively studied for the first 5 procedure diagnosis of MMC repair (ICD-9 CM procedure code 0352) and ages of less than 1 year. Eighty-eight patient stays were identified. Patient demographic data, length of stay, immediate disposition at the time of discharge, hospital information, and total cost for the hospitalization were determined.

Conclusion: Myelomeningocele repair is mostly performed in large teaching institutions in small numbers. The majority gets to go home at discharge. It is surprising to note that only 35% also required VP shunt placement during the same hospitalization.

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