Abstract

How quickly the 70 million infants, children, and adolescents living in the United States can reach appropriate levels of hospital care for potentially life-threatening illnesses or injuries is a critical, yet understudied, aspect of our nation’s pediatric public health preparedness.1,2 Although US health planning and policy efforts would benefit from a national understanding of how accessible general types of pediatric hospital services (newborn, emergency, and pediatric inpatient) and their more advanced counterparts (NICU, pediatric emergency, and PICU services, respectively) are, available studies have … Address correspondence to Alyna T. Chien, MD, MS, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: alyna.chien{at}childrens.harvard.edu

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