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Interhospital Transfer for the Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
卷 135, 期 4, 页码 531-535

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.11.015

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Interhospital transfer; Pulmonary embolism; Thrombolysis

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This study evaluated patients with acute pulmonary embolism and compared the characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of transferred and non-transferred patients. Transferred patients had higher-risk features, more frequently received advanced therapy, and had higher definite pulmonary embolism-related mortality.
BACKGROUND: There are increasing treatment options for the management of acute pulmonary embolism (PE), though many are only available at tertiary care centers. Patients with acute pulmonary embolism with high-risk features are often transferred for consideration of such therapies. There are limited data describing outcomes in patients transferred with acute pulmonary embolism. METHODS: We evaluated patients with acute pulmonary embolism at our tertiary care center from August 2012 through August 2018 and compared clinical characteristics, pulmonary embolism features, management, and outcomes in those transferred for acute pulmonary embolism to those that were not transferred. RESULTS: Of 2050 patients with pulmonary embolism included in the study, 432 (21.1%) were transferred from an outside hospital with a known diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. Patients transferred had a lower rate of malignancy (22.2% vs 33.3%; P<.001) and median Charlson comorbidity index (3 vs 4; P<.001). A higher percentage of patients transferred were classified as intermediate- or high-risk pulmonary embolism (62.5% vs 43.0%; P<. 001) and more frequently received advanced therapy beyond anticoagulation alone (12.5% vs 3.2%, P<.001). Overall survival to discharge was similar between groups, though definite pulmonary embolism-related mortality was higher in the transferred group (38.5% vs 9.4%, P=.004). CONCLUSION: More than 1 in 5 patients treated for acute pulmonary embolism at a tertiary care center were transferred from an outside facility. Transferred patients had higher risk pulmonary embolism features, more often received advanced therapy, and had higher definite pulmonary embolism-related mortality. There are opportunities to further optimize outcomes of patients transferred for management of acute pulmonary embolism. (C) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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