Recent Trends in Marijuana-Related Hospital Encounters in Young Children.
OBJECTIVE: Multiple states have passed legislation permitting marijuana use. The impact of legalization on trends in hospital encounters for marijuana exposures in young children across states remains unknown. We aimed to describe trends in marijuana-related hospital encounters over time in children...
| Publicado en: | Academic Pediatrics Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 592 - 598 |
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Elsevier B.V.
May/Jun2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=156823463&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 156823463 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 18762859 8NBK jtl: Academic Pediatrics issn: 18762859 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May/Jun2022 vid: 22 iid: 4 pid: 467 pub: Elsevier B.V. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 156823463 156823463 156823463 10.1016/j.acap.2021.07.018 156823463 ppf: 592 ppct: 6 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Recent Trends in Marijuana-Related Hospital Encounters in Young Children. aug: au: Bennett, Colleen E. Venkataramani, Atheendar Henretig, Fred M. Faerber, Jennifer Lihai Song Wood, Joanne N. affil: Division of General Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa sug: subj: Cannabis In Infancy and Childhood Cannabis Legislation and Jurisprudence Cannabis Adverse Effects Hospitalization Trends Hospitalization Statistics and Numerical Data Human Inpatients Emergency Service Observation Units International Classification of Diseases Models, Statistical Regression Cluster Analysis Male Female Child Child, Preschool Descriptive Statistics Critical Care Respiration, Artificial Comparative Studies Child: 6-12 years Child, Preschool: 2-5 years Male Female ab: OBJECTIVE: Multiple states have passed legislation permitting marijuana use. The impact of legalization on trends in hospital encounters for marijuana exposures in young children across states remains unknown. We aimed to describe trends in marijuana-related hospital encounters over time in children <6 years and assess the association of state-level marijuana legislation with the rate of marijuana-related hospitalizations. METHODS: We identified inpatient, emergency department and observation encounters for children <6 years with marijuana exposures (defined by International Classification of Diseases diagnosis codes) unique on the patient-year level at 52 children's hospitals in the Pediatric Health Information System database from 01/01/2004 to 12/31/2018. Trends in encounters across the study period were evaluated using negative binomial regression with outcome of marijuana-related hospital encounters and year as the predictor variable accounting for clustering by hospital. We then estimated a negative binomial regression difference-in-difference model to examine the association between the main outcome and state recreational and medical marijuana legalization. RESULTS: Of the 1296 included unique patient-year encounters, 50% were female with mean age 2.1 years (standard deviation = 1.4). Fifty percent were inpatient (n = 645) and 15% required intensive care with 4% requiring mechanical ventilation. There was a 13.3-fold increase in exposures in 2018 compared to 2004 (P< .001). We did not find an effect of state legalization status for recreational (P = .24) or medical (P = .30) marijuana. CONCLUSIONS: The observed dramatic increase in marijuana-related hospital encounters highlights the need for prevention strategies aimed at reducing unintentional marijuana exposures in young children, even in states without legislation permitting marijuana use. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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