Community versus academic hospital community-acquired pneumonia patients: a nested cohort study

Autor: Jennifer L.Y. Tsang, Kian Rego, Alexandra Binnie, Terry Lee, Anne Mccarthy, Juthaporn Cowan, Patrick Archambault, Francois Lellouche, Alexis F. Turgeon, Jennifer Yoon, Francois Lamontagne, Allison Mcgeer, Josh Douglas, Peter Daley, Robert Fowler, David M. Maslove, Brent W. Winston, Todd C. Lee, Karen C. Tran, Matthew P. Cheng, Donald C. Vinh, John H. Boyd, Keith R. Walley, Joel Singer, John C. Marshall, Gregory Haljan, Fagun Jain, James A. Russell, For CAPTIVATE Investigators
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Pneumonia, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2200-6133
DOI: 10.1186/s41479-024-00143-x
Popis: Abstract Background Most Canadians receive their care in community hospitals, yet most clinical research is conducted in academic hospitals. This study aims to compare patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) treated in academic and community hospitals with respect to their demographics, clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes. Methods This nested observational cohort substudy of the Community Acquired Pneumonia: Toward InnoVAtive Treatment (CAPTIVATE) trial included 1,329 hospitalized adults with CAP recruited between March 1st, 2018 and September 31st, 2023 from 15 Canadian hospitals. Unadjusted and adjusted analyses for age, sex and co-morbidities using logistic, Cox and censored quantile regressions were conducted. Results Patients in community hospitals were older (mean [SD] 75.0 [15.7] years vs. 68.3 [16.2] years; p
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