25% Of Child Deaths After An Emergency Department Visit Could Be Preventable

About 25% of children who died during an emergency department visit in the United States could have been saved if the emergency department had higher readiness to provide pediatric emergency care to acutely ill and injured children who require hospitalization. Between 2012 and 2022, an estimated 669,019 children received emergency department services each year at 4,840 emergency departments across the United States. Of those, an estimated 7,619 children died each year during the emergency department visit or related hospitalization. If emergency departments had higher readiness for pediatric care, an estimated 2,143 child deaths could have been . . .