Disparities in Pediatric Mortality by Neighborhood Income in United States Emergency Departments

To evaluate emergency department (ED) pediatric mortality by patient neighborhood income.We calculated the incidence of ED pediatric mortality via a cross-sectional study of children <18 years who died in an ED using the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample and US Census from 2012 to 2016. The main exposure was median income for the patient's zip code tabulation area quartile. To determine factors associated with ED mortality, we modeled...