Association of Sociodemographic Factors With Overtriage, Undertriage, and Value of Care After Major Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether certain patients are vulnerable to errant triage decisions immediately after major surgery and whether there are unique sociodemographic phenotypes within overtriaged and undertriaged cohorts.

Background

In a fair system, overtriage of low-acuity patients to intensive care units (ICUs) and undertriage of high-acuity patients to general wards would affect all sociodemographic subgroups equally.

Methods

This multicenter, longitudinal cohort study of hospital admissions immediately after major surgery compared hospital mortality and value of care (risk-adjusted mortality/total costs) across 4 cohorts: overtriage (N = 660), risk-matched overtriage controls admitted to general wards (N = 3077), undertriage (N = 2335), and risk-matched undertr

SUBMITTER: Loftus TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11191932 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature