Opportunities for Restructuring Hospital Transfer Networks for Pediatric Asthma

To describe the current system of pediatric asthma care and identify potential options for unloading tertiary centers.Retrospective, cross-sectional study using 2014 inpatient and emergency department all-encounter administrative datasets from Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York. Study participants included children <18 with primary diagnosis of asthma.There were 174,239 encounters for pediatric asthma, with 26,316...