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Outcomes after Motor Vehicle Trauma: Transfers to Level I Trauma Centers Compared with Direct Admissions.
Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 September
BACKGROUND: The multilevel designation system given to U.S. trauma centers has proven useful in providing injury-level-appropriate care and guiding field triage. Despite the system, patients are often transferred to Level I trauma centers for higher-level care/specialized services.
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to assess whether there is a difference in outcomes of patients transferred to Level I centers compared with direct admissions.
METHODS: The Nationwide Inpatient Sample was queried to identify patients involved in motor vehicle accidents, using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification E-codes. Patients that were admitted to Level I trauma centers were identified using American College of Surgeons or American Trauma Society designations.
RESULTS: There were 343,868 patients that met inclusion criteria. Of these patients, 29.2% (100,297) were admitted to Level I trauma centers, 5.7% (5691) of which were identified as trauma transfers. The lead admitting diagnosis for transfers was pelvic fracture (11.5%). Caucasians were 2.62 times as likely to be transferred as African-Americans (confidence interval 2.32-2.97), and 3.71 times as likely as Hispanics (confidence interval 3.25-4.23). Despite transfer patients having higher adjusted severity scores and higher adjusted risk of mortality, there were no differences in mortality (p = 0.95).
CONCLUSIONS: Nationally, trauma transfers do not have an increase in mortality when compared with directly admitted patients, despite a higher adjusted severity of illness and higher adjusted risk of mortality.
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to assess whether there is a difference in outcomes of patients transferred to Level I centers compared with direct admissions.
METHODS: The Nationwide Inpatient Sample was queried to identify patients involved in motor vehicle accidents, using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification E-codes. Patients that were admitted to Level I trauma centers were identified using American College of Surgeons or American Trauma Society designations.
RESULTS: There were 343,868 patients that met inclusion criteria. Of these patients, 29.2% (100,297) were admitted to Level I trauma centers, 5.7% (5691) of which were identified as trauma transfers. The lead admitting diagnosis for transfers was pelvic fracture (11.5%). Caucasians were 2.62 times as likely to be transferred as African-Americans (confidence interval 2.32-2.97), and 3.71 times as likely as Hispanics (confidence interval 3.25-4.23). Despite transfer patients having higher adjusted severity scores and higher adjusted risk of mortality, there were no differences in mortality (p = 0.95).
CONCLUSIONS: Nationally, trauma transfers do not have an increase in mortality when compared with directly admitted patients, despite a higher adjusted severity of illness and higher adjusted risk of mortality.
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