Comparing the dangers of a stay in English and German hospitals for high‐need patients
| Autor: | Laia Maynou, Rocco Friebel, Cornelia Henschke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions Patients Average treatment effect Política sanitària State Medicine Patient safety Germany Health care medicine Humans Pacients Adverse effect Research Articles Aged Estimation Cross Infection Hospital care Cost–benefit analysis business.industry Health Policy Length of Stay Middle Aged medicine.disease Research data England Propensity score matching Emergency medicine RA Public aspects of medicine Dades de recerca Female Medical policy Patient Safety Assistència hospitalària business Delivery of Health Care Adverse drug reaction |
| Zdroj: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona Health Serv Res |
| ISSN: | 1475-6773 0017-9124 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1475-6773.13712 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: To estimate the risk of an avoidable adverse event for high‐need patients in England and Germany and the causal impact that has on outcomes. DATA SOURCES: We use administrative, secondary data for all hospital inpatients in 2018. Patient records for the English National Health Service are provided by the Hospital Episode Statistics database and for the German health care system accessed through the Research Data Center of the Federal Statistical Office. STUDY DESIGN: We calculated rates of three hospital‐acquired adverse events and their causal impact on mortality and length of stay through propensity score matching and estimation of average treatment effects. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS: Patients were identified based on diagnoses codes and translated Patient Safety Indicators developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: For the average hospital stay, the risk of an adverse event was 5.37% in the English National Health Service and 3.26% in the German health care system. High‐need patients are more likely to experience an adverse event, driven by hospital‐acquired infections (2.06%–4.45%), adverse drug reactions (2.37%–2.49%), and pressure ulcers (2.25%–0.45%). Adverse event risk is particularly high for patients with advancing illnesses (10.50%–27.11%) and the frail elderly (17.75%–28.19%). Compared to the counterfactual, high‐need patients with an adverse event are more likely to die during their hospital stay and experience a longer length of stay. CONCLUSIONS: High‐need patients are particularly vulnerable with an adverse event risking further deterioration of health status and adding resource use. Our results indicate the need to assess the costs and benefits of a hospital stay, particularly when care could be provided in settings considered less hazardous. |
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