Association between Hospital Volume and Within-Hospital Intensive Care Unit Transfer for Sickle Cell Disease in Children's Hospitals.

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Published in J Pediatr on October 23, 2015

Authors

Jean L Raphael1, Troy Richardson2, Matt Hall2, Suzette O Oyeku3, David G Bundy4, Ram V Kalpatthi5, Samir S Shah6, Angela M Ellison7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Electronic address: Raphael@bcm.edu.
2: Children's Hospital Association, Overland Park, KS.
3: Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY.
4: Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
5: Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics, Kansas City, MO.
6: Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
7: Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

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