Author:
Amagasa Shunsuke,Kashiura Masahiro,Yasuda Hideto,Hayakawa Mineji,Yamakawa Kazuma,Endo Akira,Ogura Takayuki,Hirayama Atsushi,Yasunaga Hideo,Tagami Takashi
Abstract
AbstractWe aimed to evaluate the association between ICU patient volume before the COVID-19 pandemic and the outcomes of ventilated COVID-19 patients. We analyzed ventilated patients with COVID-19 aged > 17 years and enrolled in the J-RECOVER study, a retrospective multicenter observational study conducted in Japan between January and September 2020. Based on the number of patients admitted to the ICU between January and December 2019, the top third institutions were defined as high-volume centers, the middle third ones as middle-volume centers, and the bottom third ones as low-volume centers. The primary outcome measure was in-hospital mortality. Multivariate logistic regression analysis for in-hospital mortality and ICU patient volume was performed after adjusting for multiple propensity scores. Among 461 patients, 158, 158, and 145 patients were admitted to low-volume (20 institutions), middle-volume (14 institutions), and high-volume (13 institutions) centers, respectively. Admission to middle- and high-volume centers was not significantly associated with in-hospital death compared with admission to low-volume centers (adjusted odds ratio, 1.11 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.55–2.25] and adjusted odds ratio, 0.81 [95% CI: 0.31–1.94], respectively). In conclusion, institutional intensive care patient volume prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was not significantly associated with in-hospital death in ventilated COVID-19 patients.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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