Children aged 4 and younger were hospitalized with skin infections more than 34,000 times in 2006, a 150 percent increase from 2000, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The data are included in a new AHRQ analysis of hospitalization trends among children 17 and younger. It shows skin infections ranked as the 8th most common reason for child hospitalizations in 2006, up from 17th in 2000.

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