Importance Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is the most common pediatric spinal
disorder. Routine physical examinations by trained personnel are critical to diagnose …

Importance Surgical care for children in the United States has become increasingly
regionalized among fewer centers over time. The degree to which regionalization may be …

Specialty hospitals tend to negotiate higher commercial insurance payments, even for
relatively routine procedures with comparable clinical quality across hospital types. How …

Objective To develop a set of pediatric acute care hospital referral regions for use in
studying pediatric acute care delivery and test their utility relative to other regional systems …

Prior studies of associations between hospital location and outcomes for pediatric
appendectomy have not adjusted for significant differences in patient and treatment patterns …

Introduction The delivery of pediatric surgical care for gallbladder (GB) and biliary disease
involves both General Surgeons (GS) and Pediatric Surgeons (PS). There is a lack of data …

Background: Current understanding of medical debt among various income ranges and
insurance carriers is limited. We analyzed median household incomes, insurance carriers …

The article “Cholecystectomies performed in Children by Pediatric Surgeons compared to
General Surgeons in North Carolina are associated with Higher Institutional Charges” by …