Hospital-Level Variability in Use of Intracoronary Imaging for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intracoronary (IC) imaging for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with better patient outcomes and carries a class IIA guideline recommendation, but it remains rarely used. We sought to characterize hospital-level variability in IC imaging for PCI in the United States and to identify factors that may explain this variability.

Methods

Patients who underwent PCI, with or without IC imaging, in the Nationwide Readmissions Database (2016-2020) were included. A regression model with a random effect for site was used to generate the median odds ratio (MOR) of IC imaging use for a patient at one site vs another, sequentially adjusting for procedural, patient, and hospital factors to examine the extent to which different factors account for this variab

SUBMITTER: Malik AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11308136 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature