Inpatient and Postdischarge Outcomes Following Inhalation Injury Among Critically Injured Burn Patients.

ABSTRACT: Inhalation injury is associated with high inpatient mortality, but the impact of inhalation injury after discharge and on non-mortality outcomes is poorly characterized. To address this gap, we evaluated the effect of inhalation injury on postdischarge morbidity, mortality, and hospital readmissions among patients who sustained burn injury, as well as on in-hospital outcomes for context. This was a retrospective cohort study of patients with cutaneous fire/flame burns admitted to a burn center intensive care unit from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2015, with or without inhalation injury. Records were linked to statewide hospital admission and vital statistics databases to assess postdischarge outcomes. Mixed-effects Poisson regression was used to assess mortality, complications, and read

SUBMITTER: Witt CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8633137 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature