Hospital-acquired complications: the relative importance of hospital- and patient-related factors.
Adverse events
Analysis of variance
Morbidity
Quality of health care
Journal
The Medical journal of Australia
ISSN: 1326-5377
Titre abrégé: Med J Aust
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 0400714
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
21 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022
Historique:
revised:
27
09
2021
received:
24
02
2021
accepted:
08
10
2021
pubmed:
1
1
2022
medline:
20
4
2022
entrez:
31
12
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To quantify the prevalence of hospital-acquired complications; to determine the relative influence of patient- and hospital-related factors on complication rates. Retrospective analysis of administrative data (Integrated South Australian Activity Collection; Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset) for multiple-day acute care episodes for adults in public hospitals. Thirty-eight major public hospitals in South Australia and Victoria, 2015-2018. Hospital-acquired complication rates, overall and by complication class, by hospital and hospital type (tertiary referral, major metropolitan service, major regional service); variance in rates (intra-class correlation coefficient, ICC) at the patient, hospital, and hospital type levels as surrogate measures of their influence on rates. Of 1 558 978 public hospital episodes (10 029 918 bed-days), 151 486 included a total of 214 286 hospital-acquired complications (9.72 [95% CI, 9.67-9.77] events per 100 episodes; 2.14 [95% CI, 2.13-2.15] events per 100 bed-days). Complication rates were highest in tertiary referral hospitals (12.7 [95% CI, 12.6-12.8] events per 100 episodes) and for episodes including intensive care components (37.1 [95% CI, 36.7-37.4] events per 100 episodes). For all complication classes, inter-hospital variation was determined more by patient factors (overall ICC, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.53-0.57) than by hospital factors (ICC, 0.04; 95% CI, 0.02-0.07) or hospital type (ICC, 0.01; 95% CI, 0.001-0.03). Hospital-acquired complications were recorded for 9.7% of hospital episodes, but patient-related factors played a greater role in determining their prevalence than the treating hospital.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
242-247Commentaires et corrections
Type : CommentIn
Informations de copyright
© 2021 AMPCo Pty Ltd.
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