Acute care utilization and rehospitalizations for sickle cell disease

DC Brousseau, PL Owens, AL Mosso, JA Panepinto… - Jama, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Context Published rates of health care utilization and rehospitalization by people with sickle
cell disease have had limited generalizability and are not population based. Objective To
provide benchmark data for rates of acute care utilization and rehospitalizations for patients
with sickle cell disease. Design Retrospective cohort of sickle cell disease–related
emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations from select states in the 2005 and
2006 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases and State …