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  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine
  • Health Informatics
  • Quality Improvement Science

Background:

  • Pediatric emergency department (ED) utilization is substantial, necessitating robust data for quality assessment.
  • The Epic Cosmos platform offers a large-scale dataset for analyzing pediatric ED encounters.
  • Understanding care patterns and quality metrics is crucial for improving pediatric emergency care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize pediatric ED encounters using the Epic Cosmos database.
  • To evaluate selected quality improvement (QI) measures for common pediatric conditions treated in the ED.
  • To assess the utility of a large electronic health record database for pediatric emergency medicine research.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of over 41 million pediatric ED encounters in the US from January 2020 to June 2025.
  • Summarized patient demographics, visit characteristics, chief complaints, and triage acuity (Emergency Severity Index).
  • Evaluated QI metrics for conditions including asthma, head injury, viral illness, croup, dehydration, and lacerations.

Main Results:

  • The study included 41,735,030 encounters; median age was 6 years, with 52% males. Most patients were White, non-Hispanic, publicly insured, and resided in urban areas.
  • Common chief complaints included fever (16.6%), cough (11.7%), vomiting (8.2%), and abdominal pain (7.4%).
  • QI metrics showed variation: e.g., 86.3% corticosteroid use for asthma, 18.6% brain CT for head injury, and 4.8% antibiotic use for viral illness.

Conclusions:

  • Pediatric ED encounters in Epic Cosmos reflect national care patterns.
  • The platform is valuable for assessing pediatric emergency care quality and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Findings should be interpreted with awareness of potential data variability in coding and institutional representation.