Outcomes in high and low volume hospitals in patients with acute hematochezia in a cohort study

Autor: Naoki Ishii, Naoyoshi Nagata, Katsumasa Kobayashi, Atsushi Yamauchi, Atsuo Yamada, Jun Omori, Takashi Ikeya, Taiki Aoyama, Naoyuki Tominaga, Yoshinori Sato, Takaaki Kishino, Tsunaki Sawada, Masaki Murata, Akinari Takao, Kazuhiro Mizukami, Ken Kinjo, Shunji Fujimori, Takahiro Uotani, Minoru Fujita, Hiroki Sato, Sho Suzuki, Toshiaki Narasaka, Junnosuke Hayasaka, Tomohiro Funabiki, Yuzuru Kinjo, Akira Mizuki, Shu Kiyotoki, Tatsuya Mikami, Ryosuke Gushima, Hiroyuki Fujii, Yuta Fuyuno, Naohiko Gunji, Yosuke Toya, Kazuyuki Narimatsu, Noriaki Manabe, Koji Nagaike, Tetsu Kinjo, Yorinobu Sumida, Sadahiro Funakoshi, Kana Kawagishi, Tamotsu Matsuhashi, Yuga Komaki, Kuniko Miki, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Fumio Omata, Yasutoshi Shiratori, Noriatsu Imamura, Takahiko Yano, Mitsuru Kaise
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99832-6
Popis: Abstract Outcomes of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding have not been compared according to hospital capacity. We aimed to perform a propensity score-matched cohort study with path and mediation analyses for acute hematochezia patients. Hospitals were divided into high- versus low-volume hospitals for emergency medical services. Rebleeding and death within 30 days were compared. Computed tomography, early colonoscopy (colonoscopy performed within 24 h), and endoscopic therapies were included as mediators. A total of 2644 matched pairs were yielded. The rebleeding rate within 30 days was not significant between high- and low-volume hospitals (16% vs. 17%, P = 0.44). The mortality rate within 30 days was significantly higher in the high-volume cohort than in the low-volume cohort (1.7% vs. 0.8%, P = 0.003). Treatment at high-volume hospitals was not a significant factor for rebleeding (odds ratio [OR] = 0.91; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.79–1.06; P = 0.23), but was significant for death within 30 days (OR = 2.03; 95% CI, 1.17–3.52; P = 0.012) on multivariate logistic regression after adjusting for patients’ characteristics. Mediation effects were not observed, except for rebleeding within 30 days in high-volume hospitals through early colonoscopy. However, the direct effect of high-volume hospitals on rebleeding was not significant. High-volume hospitals did not improve the outcomes of acute hematochezia patients.
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