Do Rural–Urban Disparities Translate into Nursing Complexity at Hospital Admission? Evidence from a Single Tertiary-Care Pediatric Hospital in Italy

Children (Basel) · 2026 · PMC13297637

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.063so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

A trend toward longer LOS was observed among admissions from rural areas (median 5.0 days) compared with other groups (median 4.0 days), although this difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.063).

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