High Resource Utilization Does Not Affect Mortality in Acute Respiratory Failure Patients Managed With Tracheostomy
| Autor: | Samuel F. Hohmann, Bradley D. Freeman, Sofia Medvedev, Steven M. Kymes, Dustin Stwalley, Peter E. Morris, Dennis Lambert, Joshua Edler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Quality Assurance Health Care medicine.medical_treatment Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Affect (psychology) Article Tracheostomy Health care medicine Humans Acute respiratory failure Hospital Mortality Intensive care medicine Mechanical ventilation Resource intensity business.industry General Medicine Odds ratio Length of Stay Middle Aged Respiration Artificial Patient Discharge United States Intensive Care Units Acute Disease Female Health Expenditures Respiratory Insufficiency Complication business Resource utilization |
| Zdroj: | Respiratory Care. 58:1863-1872 |
| ISSN: | 1943-3654 0020-1324 |
| DOI: | 10.4187/respcare.02359 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Tracheostomy practice in patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) varies greatly among institutions. This variability has the potential to be reflected in the resources expended providing care. In various healthcare environments, increased resource expenditure has been associated with a favorable effect on outcome. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between institutional resource expenditure and mortality in ARF patients managed with tracheostomy. METHODS: We developed analytic models employing the University Health Systems Consortium (Oakbrook, Illinois) database. Administrative coding data were used to identify patients with the principal diagnosis of ARF, procedures, complications, post-discharge destination, and survival. Mean resource intensity of participating academic medical centers was determined using risk-adjusted estimates of costs. Mortality risk was determined using a multivariable approach that incorporated patient-level demographic and clinical variables and institution-level resource intensity. RESULTS: We analyzed data from 44,124 ARF subjects, 4,776 (10.8%) of whom underwent tracheostomy. Compared to low-resource-intensity settings, treatment in high-resource-intensity academic medical centers was associated with increased risk of mortality (odds ratio 1.11, 95% CI 1.05–1.76), including those managed with tracheostomy (odds ratio high-resource-intensity academic medical center with tracheostomy 1.10, 95% CI 1.04–1.17). We examined the relationship between complication development and outcome. While neither the profile nor number of complications accumulated differed comparing treatment environments ( P > .05 for both), mortality for tracheostomy patients experiencing complications was greater in high-resource-intensity (95/313, 30.3%) versus low-resource-intensity (552/2,587, 21.3%) academic medical centers ( P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: We were unable to demonstrate a positive relationship between resource expenditure and outcome in ARF patients managed with tracheostomy. |
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