Intensive care units with low versus high volume of myocardial infarction: clinical outcomes, resource utilization, and quality metrics

The volume-outcome relationship associated with intensive care unit (ICU) experience with managing acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains inadequately understood. Within a multicenter clinical ICU database, we identified patients with a primary ICU admission diagnosis of AMI between 2008 and 2010...

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Published in:Journal of the American Heart Association 2015-06, Vol.4 (6), p.e001225-e001225
Main Authors: Stolker, Joshua M, Badawi, Omar, Spertus, John A, Nasir, Ammar, Kennedy, Kevin F, Harris, Ilene H, Franey, Christine S, Hsu, Van Doren, Ripple, Gary R, Howell, Gregory H, Lem, Vincent M, Chan, Paul S
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Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Female
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Intensive Care Units - standards
Intensive Care Units - statistics & numerical data
Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction - mortality
Myocardial Infarction - therapy
Original Research
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Quality of Health Care - standards
Quality of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Risk
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:The volume-outcome relationship associated with intensive care unit (ICU) experience with managing acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains inadequately understood. Within a multicenter clinical ICU database, we identified patients with a primary ICU admission diagnosis of AMI between 2008 and 2010 to evaluate whether annual AMI volume of an individual ICU is associated with mortality, length-of-stay, or quality indicators. Patients were categorized into those treated in ICUs with low-annual-AMI volume (≤50th percentile,
ISSN:2047-9980
2047-9980
DOI:10.1161/JAHA.114.001225