Causes and costs for ED visits after pediatric adenotonsillectomy.

Objective: (1) Review the reasons, timing, and costs for children presenting to the emergency department (ED) after adenotonsillectomy (T&A).

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Setting: Tertiary care children's hospital.

Pediatric tracheostomy: timing of the first tube change.

Objectives: No consensus exists on appropriate timing for the first tracheostomy tube change. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of early tracheostomy change in the pediatric population.

Methods: A case series of all children undergoing tracheostomy at a tertiary children's hospital between 2008-2013 was retrospectively reviewed.

Variation in pediatric outpatient adenotonsillectomy costs in a multihospital network.

Objectives/hypothesis: Identify hospital costs for same-day pediatric adenotonsillectomy (T&A) surgery, and evaluate surgeon, hospital, and patient factors influencing variation in costs, and compare relationship of costs to complications for T&A.

Study Design: Observational retrospective cohort study.

Methods: A multihospital network's standardized activity-based accounting system was used to determine hospital costs per T&A from 1998 to 2012.