Infantile Hemangioma Treated with Propranolol Readmission Trends, Complications of Therapy, and Cost: A PHIS Database Study

Table 1

Demographics and hospital stay characteristics for infantile hemangioma admissions.

	Number of patients (%)
Total	2290
Female	1610 (70.3)
Age
3 weeks to 2 months	191 (8.3)
2 months to 4 months	232 (10.1)
4 months to 6 months	613 (26.8)
6 months to 1 year	1254 (54.8)
Race
White	1444 (63.1)
Black	97 (4.2)
Asian	68 (3.0)
Hispanic or Latino	392 (17.1)
Other	289 (12.6)
Cost in US dollars per admission	$5,158.4 [$3,258.5-$8,560.1]
Neurologic and neuromuscular flag	90 (3.9)
Respiratory flag	69 (3.0)
Hospital stay
Mortality	0 (0.0)
Average LOS (days) [CI]	2 [2, 3]
ICU admission	213 (9.30)
Readmission	368 (16.07)

Abbreviations: length of stay = LOS; intensive care unit = ICU.