Inter-hospital variation in surgical intensity for trauma admissions: A multicentre cohort study.

International Journal of Clinical Practice
Marie-Pier PattonJulien Clément

Abstract

Guidelines for injury care are increasingly moving away from surgical management towards less invasive procedures but there is a knowledge gap on how these recommendations are influencing practice. We aimed to assess inter-hospital variation in surgical intensity for injury admissions and evaluate the correlation between hospital surgical intensity and mortality/complications. We included adults admitted for major trauma between 2006 and 2016 in a Canadian provincial trauma system. Analyses were stratified for orthopaedic (n = 16 887), neurological (n = 12 888) and torso injuries (n = 9816). Surgical intensity was quantified with the number of surgical procedures <72 hours. Inter-hospital variation was assessed with the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC). We assessed the correlation between the risk-adjusted mean number of surgical procedures and risk-adjusted incidence of mortality and complications using Pearson correlation coefficients (r). Moderate inter-hospital variation was observed for orthopaedic surgery (ICC = 14.0%) whereas variation was low for torso surgery (ICC = 2.7%) and neurosurgery (ICC = 0.8%). Surgical intensity was negatively correlated with hospital mortality for torso injury (r = -.32, P = .02) and...Continue Reading

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