Angela Jerath1,2,3,4, Andreas Laupacis5,6, Peter C Austin5, Hannah Wunsch7,8, Duminda N Wijeysundera9,7,5,6. 1. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, 3-EN 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada. Angela.Jerath@uhn.ca. 2. Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Room 1201, 123 Edward St, Toronto, ON, M5G 1E2, Canada. Angela.Jerath@uhn.ca. 3. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, G-Wing, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada. Angela.Jerath@uhn.ca. 4. Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada. Angela.Jerath@uhn.ca. 5. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, G-Wing, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada. 6. Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond St, Toronto, ON, M5B 1W8, Canada. 7. Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Room 1201, 123 Edward St, Toronto, ON, M5G 1E2, Canada. 8. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada. 9. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, 3-EN 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Patients are sometimes admitted to intensive care units (ICU) after elective noncardiac surgery for advanced monitoring and treatments not available on a general postsurgical ward. However, patterns of ICU utilization are poorly understood. Our aims were to assess the incidence and determinants of ICU utilization after elective noncardiac surgical procedures. METHODS: Population-based cohort study included adult patients who underwent 13 types of major elective noncardiac surgical procedures between 2006 and 2014 in Ontario, Canada. Primary outcome was early admission to ICU within 24 h after surgery. A prespecified analysis using multilevel logistic regression modeling separately examined patient- and hospital-level factors associated with early ICU admission within distinct groups of surgical procedures. RESULTS: Early ICU admission occurred in 9.6% of the included 541,524 patients. Patients admitted early to ICU showed higher median age (68 vs. 65 years), burden of prehospital comorbidities (Charlson comorbidity index score ≥ 2, 33.1 vs. 10.4%), 30-day mortality rates (2.4 vs. 0.3%), and longer median postoperative hospital stays (6 vs. 4 days) than patients admitted to a ward. There was wide variation in proportions of patients admitted early to ICU across different surgery types (0.9% for hysterectomy to 90.8% for open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair) with generally low 30-day mortality across procedures (0.1-2.8%). Within individual procedures, there was wide interhospital variation in the range of early ICU admission rates (hysterectomy 0.07-14.4%, lower gastrointestinal resection 1.3-95%, endovascular aortic aneurysm 1.3-95.2%). The individual hospital where surgery was performed accounted for a large proportion of the variation in early ICU admission rates, with the median odds ratio ranging from 2.3 for hysterectomy to 21.5 for endovascular aortic aneurysm. CONCLUSIONS: There is a wide variation in early ICU admission across and within surgical procedures. The individual hospital accounts for a large proportion of this variation. Further research is required to identify the basis for this variation and to develop better methods for allocating ICU resources for postoperative management of surgical patients.
PURPOSE:Patients are sometimes admitted to intensive care units (ICU) after elective noncardiac surgery for advanced monitoring and treatments not available on a general postsurgical ward. However, patterns of ICU utilization are poorly understood. Our aims were to assess the incidence and determinants of ICU utilization after elective noncardiac surgical procedures. METHODS: Population-based cohort study included adult patients who underwent 13 types of major elective noncardiac surgical procedures between 2006 and 2014 in Ontario, Canada. Primary outcome was early admission to ICU within 24 h after surgery. A prespecified analysis using multilevel logistic regression modeling separately examined patient- and hospital-level factors associated with early ICU admission within distinct groups of surgical procedures. RESULTS: Early ICU admission occurred in 9.6% of the included 541,524 patients. Patients admitted early to ICU showed higher median age (68 vs. 65 years), burden of prehospital comorbidities (Charlson comorbidity index score ≥ 2, 33.1 vs. 10.4%), 30-day mortality rates (2.4 vs. 0.3%), and longer median postoperative hospital stays (6 vs. 4 days) than patients admitted to a ward. There was wide variation in proportions of patients admitted early to ICU across different surgery types (0.9% for hysterectomy to 90.8% for open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair) with generally low 30-day mortality across procedures (0.1-2.8%). Within individual procedures, there was wide interhospital variation in the range of early ICU admission rates (hysterectomy 0.07-14.4%, lower gastrointestinal resection 1.3-95%, endovascular aortic aneurysm 1.3-95.2%). The individual hospital where surgery was performed accounted for a large proportion of the variation in early ICU admission rates, with the median odds ratio ranging from 2.3 for hysterectomy to 21.5 for endovascular aortic aneurysm. CONCLUSIONS: There is a wide variation in early ICU admission across and within surgical procedures. The individual hospital accounts for a large proportion of this variation. Further research is required to identify the basis for this variation and to develop better methods for allocating ICU resources for postoperative management of surgical patients.
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Critical care; Epidemiology; Health services research; Surgery
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