All-Cause Mortality Among Children in the US Foster Care System, 2003-2016

Barbara H Chaiyachati; Joanne N Wood; Nandita Mitra; Krisda H Chaiyachati

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0715

All-Cause Mortality Among Children in the US Foster Care System, 2003-2016

JAMA Pediatr. 2020 Sep 1;174(9):896-898. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0715.

Authors

Barbara H Chaiyachati^{1

2

3}, Joanne N Wood^{1

2

3

4

5}, Nandita Mitra^{3

6}, Krisda H Chaiyachati^{3

7}

Affiliations

¹ SafePlace: The Center for Child Protection and Health, Division of General Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
² Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
³ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁵ PolicyLab, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁷ Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Abstract

This cross-sectional analysis uses data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System to investigate mortality rates among children in the US foster care system compared with those of the general population.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Child, Foster / statistics & numerical data*
Child, Preschool
Female
Foster Home Care / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Infant
Male
Registries*
Retrospective Studies
Survival Rate / trends
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

K12 HS026372/HS/AHRQ HHS/United States