Investigators from University of Illinois Release New Data on Sleep Disorders (Association Between Sleep Disorders and Health Care Utilization In Children With Chronic Medical Conditions: a Medicaid Claims Data Analysis): Sleep Diseases and Conditions – Sleep Disorders

2024 MAY 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Sleep Diseases and Conditions - Sleep Disorders have been published. According to news reporting from Chicago, Illinois, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “To examine the risk of increased health care utilization (HU) linked to individual sleep disorders in children with chronic medical conditions. Medicaid claims data from a cohort of 16,325 children enrolled in the Coordinated Healthcare for Complex Kids (CHECK) project were used.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Illinois, “Sleep disorders and chronic medical conditions were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth, and 10th Revision, codes. Three HU groups were identified based on participants’ prior hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits in the 12 months prior to enrollment: low (no hospitalization or ED visit), medium (1-2 hospitalizations or 1-3 ED visits), and high (>= 3 hospitalizations or >= 4 ED visits). The odds of being in an increased HU group associated with specific sleep disorders after controlling for confounding factors were examined. Children with chronic medical conditions and any sleep disorder had nearly twice the odds (odds ratio = 1.83; 95% confidence interval: 1.67-2.01) of being in an increased HU group compared with those without a sleep disorder. The odds of being in the increased HU group varied among sleep disorders. Only sleep -disordered breathing (odds ratio = 1.51; 95% confidence interval : 1.17-1.95), insomnia (odds ratio = 1.46; 95% confidence interval : 1.06-2.02), and circadian rhythm sleep disorder (odds ratio = 2.45; 95% confidence interval : 1.07-5.64) increased those odds. Younger age and being White were also linked to increased HU. Sleep disorders are associated with increased risk of heightened HU (ED visits and/or hospitalizations) in children with chronic medical conditions. This risk varies by specific sleep disorders.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “These findings indicate the need for careful evaluation and management of sleep disorders in this high -risk cohort.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Association Between Sleep Disorders and Health Care Utilization In Children With Chronic Medical Conditions: a Medicaid Claims Data Analysis. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 2024;20(4):595-601. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine can be contacted at: Amer Acad Sleep Medicine, 2510 N Frontage Rd, Darien, IL 60561, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Pranshu A. Adavadkar, University of Illinois, Dept. of Pediatrics, Chicago, IL, United States. Additional authors for this research include Andrea A. Pappalardo, Alan Schwartz, Kenneth Rasinski, Molly A. Martin and Lee Brooks.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.10936. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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