Mortality of hospitalised internal medicine patients bedspaced to non-internal medicine inpatient units: retrospective cohort study
Mortality of hospitalised internal medicine patients bedspaced to non-internal medicine inpatient units: retrospective cohort study
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DOI:
10.1136/bmjqs-2017-006925
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发表时间:
2018-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Gill, Sudeep S.
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作者:
Bai, Anthony D.;Srivastava, Siddhartha;Gill, Sudeep S.
Objective To compare inhospital mortality of general internal medicine (GIM) patients bedspaced to off-service wards with GIM inpatients admitted to assigned GIM wards.Method A retrospective cohort study of consecutive GIM admissions between 1 January 2015 and 1 January 2016 was conducted at a large tertiary care hospital in Canada. Inhospital mortality was compared between patients admitted to off-service wards (bedspaced) and assigned GIM wards using a Cox proportional hazards model and a competing risk model. Sensitivity analyses included propensity score and pair matching based on GIM service team, workload, demographics, time of admission, reasons for admission and comorbidities.Results Among 3243 consecutive GIM admissions, more than a third (1125, 35%) were bedspaced to off-service wards with the rest (2118, 65%) admitted to assigned GIM wards. In hospital, 176 (5%) patients died: 88/1125 (8%) bedspaced patients and 88/2118 (4%) assigned GIM ward patients. Compared with assigned GIM wards patients, bedspaced patients had an HR of 3.42 (95% CI 2.23 to 5.26; P