High ward occupancy, bedspacing, and 60 day mortality for patients with myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To study the consequences of crowded wards among patients with cardiovascular disease.

Methods and results

This is a cohort study among 201 801 patients with 258 807 admissions who were acutely admitted for myocardial infarction (N = 107 895), stroke (N = 87 336), or heart failure (N = 63 576) to any Norwegian hospital between 2008 and 2016. The ward admitting most patients with the given clinical condition was considered a patient's home ward. We compared patients with the same condition admitted when home ward occupancy was different, at the same hospital and during comparable time periods. Occupancy was standardized such that a one-unit difference corresponded to the interquartile range in occupancy in the given month. One interquartile increase in home ward occupanc

SUBMITTER: Asheim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9065853 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature