Hospital volume and outcomes for acute pulmonary embolism: multinational population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the association between experience in the management of acute pulmonary embolism, reflected by hospital case volume, and mortality.

Design

Multinational population based cohort study using data from the Registro Informatizado de la Enfermedad TromboEmbólica (RIETE) registry between 1 January 2001 and 31 August 2018.

Setting

353 hospitals in 16 countries.

Participants

39 257 consecutive patients with confirmed diagnosis of acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism.

Main outcome measure

Pulmonary embolism related mortality within 30 days after diagnosis of the condition.

Results

Patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism admitted to high volume hospitals (>40 pulmonary embolisms per year) had a higher burden of comorbiditie

SUBMITTER: Jimenez D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661688 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature