Abstract
The aims of this study were to compare the characteristics of adult patients with left-sided infective endocarditis (LSIE) diagnosed and treated in a tertiary-care hospital with those of patients referred from a second-level community hospital, and to establish the accuracy of diagnosis and adequacy of treatment in referred patients and the influence of this factor on outcome. A prospective observational cohort study was conducted at Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, a 1000-bed teaching hospital in Barcelona (Spain) and a referral centre for cardiac surgery. One hundred and fourteen of 337 (34%) episodes of LSIE treated in our hospital occurred in transferred patients. As compared with patients diagnosed in our hospital, transferred patients acquired LSIE within the healthcare system less often (16.7% vs. 38.1%, p <0.001), were in better health (Charlson index 3 (interquartile range (IQR)) 1-4) vs. 4 (IQR 2-6), p <0.001), had more complications (94.7% vs. 78.9%, p <0.001), underwent more operations (69.3% vs. 22.1%, p <0.001), and experienced similar mortality (22.8% vs. 31.4%, p 0.100). Only 52 of 114 (45.6%) referred patients received an antimicrobial regimen included in the American, European or Spanish guidelines at the ...Continue Reading
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