Relationship between institutional ventilated COVID-19 case volume and in-hospital death: A multicenter cohort study.
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
05
05
2022
accepted:
03
06
2023
medline:
19
6
2023
pubmed:
15
6
2023
entrez:
15
6
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The volume-outcome relationship in patients with severe Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is unclear and is important for establishing a system for the medical care of severe COVID-19. This study aimed to evaluate the association between institutional case volume and outcomes in patients with ventilated COVID-19. We analyzed patients with severe COVID-19 on ventilatory control aged > 17 years who were enrolled in the J-RECOVER study, which is a retrospective multicenter observational study conducted between January 2020 and September 2020 in Japan. Based on the ventilated COVID-19 case volume, the higher one-third of institutions were defined as high-volume centers, the middle one-third as middle-volume centers, and the lower one-third as low-volume centers. The primary outcome measure was in-hospital mortality during hospitalization due to COVID-19. Multivariate logistic regression analysis for in-hospital mortality and ventilated COVID-19 case volume was performed after adjusting for multiple propensity scores and in-hospital variables. To estimate the multiple propensity score, we fitted a multinomial logistic regression model, which fell into one of the three groups based on patient demographics and prehospital factors. We analyzed 561 patients who required ventilator management. In total, 159, 210, and 192 patients were admitted to low-volume (36 institutions, < 11 severe COVID-19 cases per institution during the study period), middle-volume (14 institutions, 11-25 severe cases per institution), and high-volume (5 institutions, > 25 severe cases per institution) centers, respectively. After adjustment for multiple propensity scores and in-hospital variables, admission to middle- and high-volume centers was not significantly associated with in-hospital death compared with admission to low-volume centers (adjusted odds ratio, 0.77 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.46-1.29] and adjusted odds ratio, 0.76 [95% CI: 0.44-1.33], respectively). There may be no significant relationship between institutional case volume and in-hospital mortality in patients with ventilated COVID-19.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
The volume-outcome relationship in patients with severe Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is unclear and is important for establishing a system for the medical care of severe COVID-19. This study aimed to evaluate the association between institutional case volume and outcomes in patients with ventilated COVID-19.
METHODS
We analyzed patients with severe COVID-19 on ventilatory control aged > 17 years who were enrolled in the J-RECOVER study, which is a retrospective multicenter observational study conducted between January 2020 and September 2020 in Japan. Based on the ventilated COVID-19 case volume, the higher one-third of institutions were defined as high-volume centers, the middle one-third as middle-volume centers, and the lower one-third as low-volume centers. The primary outcome measure was in-hospital mortality during hospitalization due to COVID-19. Multivariate logistic regression analysis for in-hospital mortality and ventilated COVID-19 case volume was performed after adjusting for multiple propensity scores and in-hospital variables. To estimate the multiple propensity score, we fitted a multinomial logistic regression model, which fell into one of the three groups based on patient demographics and prehospital factors.
RESULTS
We analyzed 561 patients who required ventilator management. In total, 159, 210, and 192 patients were admitted to low-volume (36 institutions, < 11 severe COVID-19 cases per institution during the study period), middle-volume (14 institutions, 11-25 severe cases per institution), and high-volume (5 institutions, > 25 severe cases per institution) centers, respectively. After adjustment for multiple propensity scores and in-hospital variables, admission to middle- and high-volume centers was not significantly associated with in-hospital death compared with admission to low-volume centers (adjusted odds ratio, 0.77 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.46-1.29] and adjusted odds ratio, 0.76 [95% CI: 0.44-1.33], respectively).
CONCLUSIONS
There may be no significant relationship between institutional case volume and in-hospital mortality in patients with ventilated COVID-19.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37319278
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287310
pii: PONE-D-22-13235
pmc: PMC10270613
doi:
Types de publication
Multicenter Study
Observational Study
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0287310Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2023 Amagasa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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