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Patients were identified using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State ED and Inpatient Databases. Data were collected from January 2015 to December 2019, and data were analyzed from July to December 2023.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"ab-poi230098-7\">\n                    <jats:title>Exposure<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Annual volume of children at the first ED visited.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"ab-poi230098-8\">\n                    <jats:title>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Possible delayed diagnosis, defined as a patient with an ED discharge within 7 days prior to diagnosis. A secondary outcome was condition-specific complications. Rates of possible delayed diagnosis and complications were determined. The association of volume with delayed diagnosis across conditions was evaluated using conditional logistic regression matching on condition, age, and medical complexity. Condition-specific volume-delay associations were tested using hierarchical logistic models with log volume as the exposure, adjusting for age, sex, payer, medical complexity, and hospital urbanicity. The association of delayed diagnosis with complications by condition was then examined using logistic regressions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"ab-poi230098-9\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Of 58\u202f998 included children, 37\u202f211 (63.1%) were male, and the mean (SD) age was 7.1 (5.8) years. A total of 6709 (11.4%) had a complex chronic condition. Delayed diagnosis occurred in 9296 (15.8%; 95% CI, 15.5-16.1). Each 2-fold increase in annual pediatric volume was associated with a 26.7% (95% CI, 22.5-30.7) decrease in possible delayed diagnosis. For 21 of 23 conditions (all except ectopic pregnancy and sinus venous thrombosis), there were decreased rates of possible delayed diagnosis with increasing ED volume. Condition-specific complications were 11.2% (95% CI, 3.1-20.0) more likely among patients with a possible delayed diagnosis compared with those without.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"ab-poi230098-10\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>EDs with fewer pediatric encounters had more possible delayed diagnoses across 23 serious conditions. 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