Lack of benefit from hospitalization in patients with syncope: A propensity analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

Patients with syncope are frequently admitted to the hospital, but whether this improves outcome is unknown. We tested whether hospitalization reduced mortality in patients who presented to emergency departments (EDs) with syncope.

Methods

We conducted a propensity analysis of the outcomes of patients ≥18 years old presenting to EDs with a primary diagnosis of syncope in April 2004-March 2013. The model used 1:1 nearest-neighbor matching to predicted admission using age, sex, urban residence, household income, and 14 significant comorbidities from 4 administrative databases of the province of Alberta. The primary outcome was death.

Results

There were 57,417 ED patients with a primary diagnosis of syncope; 8864 were admitted, and 48,553 were discharged

SUBMITTER: Kaul P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7593467 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature