The Epidemiology of Adult Tracheostomy in the United States 2002-2017: A Serial Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT: Describe the longitudinal national epidemiology of tracheostomies performed in acute care hospitals and describe the annual rate of tracheostomy performed for patients with respiratory failure with invasive mechanical ventilation.

Design

Serial cross-sectional study.

Setting

The 2002-2014 and 2016-2017 Healthcare Utilization Project's National Inpatient Sample datasets.

Patients

Discharges greater than or equal to 18 years old, excluding those with head and neck cancer or transferred from another hospital. We used diagnostic and procedure codes from the International Classification of Diseases, 9th and 10th revisions to define cases of respiratory failure, invasive mechanical ventilation, and tracheostomy.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main resu

SUBMITTER: Abril MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8437212 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature