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Variation in the rates of emergency surgery amongst emergency admissions to hospital for common acute conditions
- Source :
- Hutchings, A, Moler Zapata, S, O’Neill, S, Smart, N, Cromwell, D A, Hinchliffe, R J & Grieve, R 2021, ' Variation in the rates of emergency surgery amongst emergency admissions to hospital for common acute conditions ', BJS Open, vol. 5, no. 6, zrab094 . https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zrab094, BJS Open
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021.
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Abstract
- Background This paper assesses variation in rates of emergency surgery (ES) amongst emergency admissions to hospital in patients with acute appendicitis, cholelithiasis, diverticular disease, abdominal wall hernia, and intestinal obstruction. Methods Records of emergency admissions between 1 April 2010 and 31 December 2019 for the five conditions were extracted from Hospital Episode Statistics for 136 acute National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England. Patients who had ES were identified using Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) procedure codes, selected by consensus of a clinical panel. The differences in ES rates according to patient characteristics, and unexplained variations across NHS trusts were estimated by multilevel logistic regression, adjusting for year of emergency admission, age, sex, ethnicity, diagnostic subcategories, index of multiple deprivation, number of co-morbidities, and frailty. Results The cohort sizes ranged from 107 325 (hernia) to 268 253 (appendicitis) patients, and the proportion of patients who received ES from 11.0 per cent (diverticular disease) to 92.3 per cent (appendicitis). Older patients were generally less likely to receive ES, with adjusted odds ratios (ORs) of ES for those aged 75–79 versus those aged 45–49 years: 0.34 (appendicitis), 0.49 (cholelithiasis), 0.87 (hernia), and 0.91 (intestinal obstruction). Patients with diverticular disease aged 75–79 were more likely to receive ES than those aged 45–49 (OR 1.40). Variation in ES rates across NHS trusts remained after case mix adjustment and was greatest for cholelithiasis (trust median 18 per cent, 10th to 90th centile 7–35 per cent). Conclusion For patients presenting as emergency hospital admissions with common acute conditions, variation in ES rates between NHS trusts remained after adjustment for demographic and clinical characteristics. Age was strongly associated with the likelihood of ES receipt for some procedures.<br />This study reports variation in rates of emergency surgery (ES) across National Health Service trusts amongst patients presenting as emergency admissions to hospital with acute appendicitis, cholelithiasis, diverticular disease, abdominal wall hernia, or intestinal obstruction, after adjustment for differences in patient-level characteristics. Older patients were less likely to have ES, after allowing for differences in other patient characteristics, including number of Charlson co-morbidities, level of frailty, and diagnostic subcategory. The decline in the rate of ES with increasing age was greatest for patients presenting with acute appendicitis and cholelithiasis.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
AcademicSubjects/MED00910
Population
State Medicine
Cohort Studies
Abdominal wall
Case mix index
medicine
Humans
Hernia
education
education.field_of_study
business.industry
General Medicine
Odds ratio
medicine.disease
Hospitals
Appendicitis
Hospitalization
medicine.anatomical_structure
England
Cohort
Emergency medicine
Diverticular disease
Original Article
AcademicSubjects/MED00010
business
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24749842
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hutchings, A, Moler Zapata, S, O’Neill, S, Smart, N, Cromwell, D A, Hinchliffe, R J & Grieve, R 2021, ' Variation in the rates of emergency surgery amongst emergency admissions to hospital for common acute conditions ', BJS Open, vol. 5, no. 6, zrab094 . https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zrab094, BJS Open
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fe0cbe83e810db1a915c602660fc2447