Patrick D Tyler1, David J Stone2, Benjamin P Geisler3, Stuart McLennan4, Leo Anthony Celi5,6, Barret Rush7. 1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. 2. Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA. 3. Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 4. Institute for History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. 5. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. 6. Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. 7. Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Interhospital transfer, a common intervention, may be subject to healthcare disparities. In mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis, we hypothesize that disparities not disease related would be found between patients who were and were not transferred. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2006-2012. PATIENTS: Patients over 18 years old with a primary diagnosis of sepsis who underwent mechanical ventilation. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We obtained age, gender, length of stay, race, insurance coverage, do not resuscitate status, and Elixhauser comorbidities. The outcome used was interhospital transfer from a small- or medium-sized hospital to a larger acute care hospital. Of 55,208,382 hospitalizations, 46,406 patients met inclusion criteria. In the multivariate model, patients were less likely to be transferred if the following were present: older age (odds ratio, 0.98; 95% CI, 0.978-0.982), black race (odds ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.70-0.89), Hispanic race (odds ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.69-0.90), South region hospital (odds ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.72-0.88), teaching hospital (odds ratio, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.28-0.33), and do not resuscitate status (odds ratio, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.15-0.25). CONCLUSIONS: In mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis, we found significant disparities in race and geographic location not explained by medical diagnoses or illness severity.
OBJECTIVES: Interhospital transfer, a common intervention, may be subject to healthcare disparities. In mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis, we hypothesize that disparities not disease related would be found between patients who were and were not transferred. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2006-2012. PATIENTS: Patients over 18 years old with a primary diagnosis of sepsis who underwent mechanical ventilation. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We obtained age, gender, length of stay, race, insurance coverage, do not resuscitate status, and Elixhauser comorbidities. The outcome used was interhospital transfer from a small- or medium-sized hospital to a larger acute care hospital. Of 55,208,382 hospitalizations, 46,406 patients met inclusion criteria. In the multivariate model, patients were less likely to be transferred if the following were present: older age (odds ratio, 0.98; 95% CI, 0.978-0.982), black race (odds ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.70-0.89), Hispanic race (odds ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.69-0.90), South region hospital (odds ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.72-0.88), teaching hospital (odds ratio, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.28-0.33), and do not resuscitate status (odds ratio, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.15-0.25). CONCLUSIONS: In mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis, we found significant disparities in race and geographic location not explained by medical diagnoses or illness severity.
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