The Application of the Ten Group Classification System (TGCS) in Caesarean Delivery Case Mix Adjustment. A Multicenter Prospective Study

Autor: Sandro Zicari, Cristina Di Leonardo, Giovanni Del Frate, Alberto Rossi, Simona Melazzini, Silvia Smiroldo, Diego Marchesoni, Attilio D'Atri, Giorgio Simon, Caterina Businelli, Laura Travan, Maria Parente, Daniele Domini, Sara Casarsa, Daniele Bassini, Silvio Giove, Valentina Soini, Sergio Demarini, Secondo Guaschino, Michela De Agostinis, Francesco De Seta, Raffaela Mugittu, Carlo Zompicchiatti, Monica Olivuzzi, Lorenzo Monasta, C. Gigli, Gianpaolo Maso, Claudio Fiscella, Santo La Valle, Marcella Montico, Monica Piccoli, Giorgio Tamburlini, Luca Ronfani, Salvatore Alberico, Valter Adamo
Přispěvatelé: Maso, Gianpaolo, Alberico, Salvatore, Lorenzo, Monasta, Ronfani, Luca, Montico, Marcella, Businelli, Caterina, Soini, Valentina, Piccoli, Monica, Carmine, Gigli, Daniele, Domini, Claudio, Fiscella, Sara, Casarsa, Carlo, Zompicchiatti, Michela De, Agostini, Attilio, D’Atri, Raffaela, Mugittu, Santo La, Valle, Cristina Di, Leonardo, Valter, Adamo, Smiroldo, Silvia, Giovanni Del, Frate, Monica, Olivuzzi, Silvio, Giove, Maria, Parente, Daniele, Bassini, Simona, Melazzini, Guaschino, Secondo, DE SETA, Francesco, Demarini, Sergio, Travan, Laura, Diego, Marchesoni, Rossi, Alberto, Simon, Giorgio, Zicari, Sandro, Giorgio, Tamburlin
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
Non-Clinical Medicine
Epidemiology
lcsh:Medicine
Logistic regression
Labor and Delivery
Pregnancy
Odds Ratio
Prospective Studies
lcsh:Science
Prospective cohort study
Epidemiological Methods
Multidisciplinary
Obstetrics
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Gestational age
Italy
Area Under Curve
symbols
Medicine
Female
Risk Adjustment
Health Services Research
Public Health
Obstetric Surgery
Research Article
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Birth weight
symbols.namesake
Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
medicine
Chi-square test
Humans
Health Care Quality
Management of High-Risk Pregnancies
Health Care Policy
cesarean section
Receiver operating characteristic
business.industry
lcsh:R
Cesarean Section
Logistic Models
Multivariate Analysis
ROC Curve
Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all)
Surgery
Pregnancy Complications
Survey Methods
Bonferroni correction
Relative risk
lcsh:Q
Health Statistics
business
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 6, p e62364 (2013)
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062364
Popis: BACKGROUND: Caesarean delivery (CD) rates are commonly used as an indicator of quality in obstetric care and risk adjustment evaluation is recommended to assess inter-institutional variations. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the Ten Group classification system (TGCS) can be used in case-mix adjustment. METHODS: Standardized data on 15,255 deliveries from 11 different regional centers were prospectively collected. Crude Risk Ratios of CDs were calculated for each center. Two multiple logistic regression models were herein considered by using: Model 1- maternal (age, Body Mass Index), obstetric variables (gestational age, fetal presentation, single or multiple, previous scar, parity, neonatal birth weight) and presence of risk factors; Model 2- TGCS either with or without maternal characteristics and presence of risk factors. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves of the multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to assess the diagnostic accuracy of each model. The null hypothesis that Areas under ROC Curve (AUC) were not different from each other was verified with a Chi Square test and post hoc pairwise comparisons by using a Bonferroni correction. RESULTS: Crude evaluation of CD rates showed all centers had significantly higher Risk Ratios than the referent. Both multiple logistic regression models reduced these variations. However the two methods ranked institutions differently: model 1 and model 2 (adjusted for TGCS) identified respectively nine and eight centers with significantly higher CD rates than the referent with slightly different AUCs (0.8758 and 0.8929 respectively). In the adjusted model for TGCS and maternal characteristics/presence of risk factors, three centers had CD rates similar to the referent with the best AUC (0.9024). CONCLUSIONS: The TGCS might be considered as a reliable variable to adjust CD rates. The addition of maternal characteristics and risk factors to TGCS substantially increase the predictive discrimination of the risk adjusted model.
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