Case Volume-Outcomes Associations Among Patients With Severe Sepsis Who Underwent Interhospital Transfer.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Case volume-outcome associations bolster arguments to regionalize severe sepsis care, an approach that may necessitate interhospital patient transfers. Although transferred patients may most closely reflect care processes involved with regionalization, associations between sepsis case volume and outcomes among transferred patients are unclear. We investigated case volume-outcome associations among patients with severe sepsis transferred from another hospital.

Design

Serial cross-sectional study using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample.

Setting

United States nonfederal hospitals, years 2003-2011.

Patients

One hundred forty-one thousand seven hundred seven patients (weighted national estimate of 717,732) with severe sepsis transferred from another acute c

SUBMITTER: Ofoma UR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5350047 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature