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JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE
卷 6, 期 2, 页码 74-80出版社
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.817
关键词
failure to rescue; hospital mortality; intensive care unit; intra-hospital transfer; patient outcomes; transitional care unit
资金
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.
- Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Inc.
- Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
- Sidney Garfield Memorial Fund
BACKGROUND: Patients who experience intra-hospital transfers to a higher level of care (eg, ward to intensive care unit [ICU]) are known to have high mortality. However, these findings have been based on single-center studies or studies that employ ICU admissions as the denominator. OBJECTIVE: To employ automated bed history data to examine outcomes of intra-hospital transfers using all hospital admissions as the denominator. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: A total of 19 acute care hospitals. PATIENTS: A total of 150,495 patients, who experienced 210,470 hospitalizations, admitted to these hospitals between November 1st, 2006 and January 31st, 2008. MEASUREMENTS: Predictors were age, sex, admission type, admission diagnosis, physiologic derangement on admission, and pre-existing illness burden; outcomes were: 1) occurrence of intra-hospital transfer, 2) death following admission to the hospital, 3) death following transfer, and 4) total hospital length of stay (LOS). RESULTS: A total of 7,868 hospitalizations that began with admission to either a general medical surgical ward or to a transitional care unit (TCU) had at least one transfer to a higher level of care. These hospitalizations constituted only 3.7% of all admissions, but accounted for 24.2% of all ICU admissions, 21.7% of all hospital deaths, and 13.2% of all hospital days. Models based on age, sex, preadmission laboratory test results, and comorbidities did not predict the occurrence of these transfers. CONCLUSIONS: Patients transferred to higher level of care following admission to the hospital have excess mortality and LOS. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2011;6:74-80. (C) 2011 Society of Hospital Medicine.
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