PMID- 30509900 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200406 LR - 20211204 IS - 2154-1663 (Print) IS - 2154-1671 (Electronic) IS - 2154-1671 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 1 DP - 2019 Jan TI - Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Patient Safety Events for Hospitalized Children. PG - 1-5 LID - 10.1542/hpeds.2018-0131 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVES: Previous studies have revealed racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in quality of care and patient safety. However, these disparities have not been examined in a pediatric inpatient environment by using a measure of clinically confirmed adverse events (AEs). In this study, we do so using the Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) Trigger Tool. METHODS: GAPPS was applied to medical records of randomly selected pediatric patients discharged from 16 hospitals in the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings Network across 4 US regions from January 2007 to December 2012. Disparities in AEs for hospitalized children were identified on the basis of patient race/ethnicity (black, Latino, white, or other; N = 17 336 patient days) and insurance status (public, private, or self-pay/no insurance; N = 19 030 patient days). RESULTS: Compared with hospitalized non-Latino white children, hospitalized Latino children experienced higher rates of all AEs (Latino: 30.1 AEs per 1000 patient days versus white: 16.9 AEs per 1000 patient days; P