Relationship between hospital volume and outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury: A retrospective observational study using a national inpatient database in Japan

Injury
Tomoki WadaSusumu Nakajima

Abstract

The relationship between hospital volume and outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is not completely understood in a real clinical setting. We investigated whether patients admitted with TBI achieved better outcomes in high-volume hospitals than in low-volume hospitals using a national inpatient database in Japan. This retrospective cohort study used the Diagnosis Combination Procedure database in Japan. We included patients with TBI admitted to hospitals with a Japan Coma Scale (JCS) score ≥2 between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014. Hospital volume was defined as the annual number of all admissions with TBI in individual hospitals. The hospital volume was categorized into four volume groups: low (≤60 admissions per hospital), medium-low (61-120 admissions per hospital), medium-high (121-180 admissions per hospital) and high (≥181 admissions per hospital). The outcomes of interest included 28-day mortality and survival discharge with complete dependency defined as a Barthel Index score of 0 at discharge. We used multivariate logistic regression models fitted with generalized estimating equations to evaluate relationships between the hospital volume and the outcomes. The hospital volume was evaluated both as categorical va...Continue Reading

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