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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Prescott, Hallie C
• Kepreos, Kyle M
• Wiitala, Wyndy L
• Iwashyna, Theodore J

Titel

Temporal Changes in the Influence of Hospitals and Regional Healthcare Networks on Severe Sepsis Mortality

Ist Teil von

• Critical care medicine, 2015-07, Vol.43 (7), p.1368-1374

Ort / Verlag

United States: Copyright by by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• OBJECTIVES:There is systematic variation between hospitals in their care of severe sepsis, but little information on whether this variation impacts sepsis-related mortality, or how hospitals’ and health-systems’ impacts have changed over time. We examined whether hospital and regional organization of severe sepsis care is associated with meaningful differences in 30-day mortality in a large integrated health care system, and the extent to which those effects are stable over time. DESIGN:In this retrospective cohort study, we used risk- and reliability-adjusted hierarchical logistic regression to estimate hospital- and region-level random effects after controlling for severity of illness using a rich mix of administrative and clinical laboratory data. SETTING:One hundred fourteen U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in 21 geographic regions. PATIENTS:Forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty-three patients with severe sepsis in 2012, compared to 33,095 such patients in 2008. INTERVENTIONS:None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:The median hospital in the worst quintile of performers had a risk-adjusted 30-day mortality of 16.7% (95% CI, 13.5%, 20.5%) in 2012 compared with the best quintile, which had a risk-adjusted mortality of 12.8% (95% CI, 10.7%, 15.3%). Hospitals and regions explained a statistically and clinically significant proportion of the variation in patient outcomes. Thirty-day mortality after severe sepsis declined from 18.3% in 2008 to 14.7% in 2012 despite very similar severity of illness between years. The proportion of the variance in sepsis-related mortality explained by hospitals and regions was stable between 2008 and 2012. CONCLUSIONS:In this large integrated healthcare system, there is clinically significant variation in sepsis-related mortality associated with hospitals and regions. The proportion of variance explained by hospitals and regions has been stable over time, although sepsis-related mortality has declined.