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Gómez-Palomo JM, Martínez-Crespo A, Víquez-da Silva R, Del Llano-Señarís JE, Zamora-Navas P. [Influence of medical outliers in patients with femoral neck fracture]. J Healthc Qual Res 2022; 37:390-396. [PMID: 35654723 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhqr.2022.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Revised: 01/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES The objective is to describe and analyze how outlier admission influences hospital stay and the appearance of complications in patients with a femoral neck fracture treated with arthroplasty. MATERIAL AND METHOD A historical cohort study was carried out in which the group of patients with a displaced fracture of the femoral neck who had an outlier admission was defined as an exposed cohort, that is, they were admitted to a hospitalization area not belonging to the Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology department, unlike the unexposed cohort, that included patients admitted to a hospitalization area assigned to the Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology department. RESULTS Outlier admission was a risk factor for requiring a postoperative transfusion (RR 1.52, 95% CI 1.05-2.21; P=.035), to have a postoperative stay longer than 5 days (RR 1.35, 95% CI 1.04-1.74; P=.038) and to suffer general postoperative complications (RR 1.35, 95% CI 1.02-1.78; P=.048). CONCLUSIONS Outlier admission is a threat to the quality and safety of health care. In patients over 80 years of age, medical outliers is a risk factor for postoperative transfusion and systemic postoperative complications.
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- J M Gómez-Palomo
- Unidad de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, España; Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Málaga, España.
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- Unidad de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital de Montilla, Montilla, Córdoba, España
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- Unidad de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, España
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- Fundación Gaspar Casal, Madrid, España; Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, España
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- Unidad de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, España; Universidad de Málaga (UMA), Málaga, España
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Mizera M, Wysocki M, Walędziak M, Bartosiak K, Kowalewski P, Proczko-Stepaniak M, Szymański M, Kalinowski P, Orłowski M, Franczak P, Hady HR, Myśliwiec P, Szeliga J, Major P, Pędziwiatr M. The impact of severe postoperative complications on outcomes of bariatric surgery-multicenter case-matched study. Surg Obes Relat Dis 2021; 18:53-60. [PMID: 34736868 DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2021.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Revised: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery has relatively low complication rates, especially severe postoperative complications (defined by Clavien-Dindo classification as types 3 and 4), but these rates cannot be ignored. In other than bariatric surgical disciplines, complications affect not only short-term but also long-term results. In the field of bariatric surgery, this topic has not been extensively studied. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess the outcomes of bariatric treatment in patients with obesity and severe postoperative complications in comparison to patients with a noneventful perioperative course. SETTING Six surgical units at Polish public hospitals. METHODS We performed a multicenter propensity score matched analysis of 206 patients from 6 Polish surgical units and assessed the outcomes of bariatric procedures. A total of 103 patients with severe postoperative complications (70 laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy [SG] and 33 with laparoscopic Roux en Y gastric bypass [RYGB]) were compared to 103 patients with no severe complications in terms of peri- and postoperative outcomes. RESULTS The outcomes of bariatric treatment did not differ between compared groups. Median percentage of total weight loss 12 months after the surgery was 28.8% in the group with complications and 27.9% in patients with no severe complications (P = 0.993). Remission rates of both type 2 diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension showed no significant difference between SG and RYGB (36% versus 42%, P = 0.927, and 41% versus 46%, P = 0.575. respectively). CONCLUSIONS The study suggests that severe postoperative complications had no significant influence either on weight loss effects or obesity-related diseases remission.
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- Magdalena Mizera
- Second Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
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- Department of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Ludwik Rydygier Memorial Hospital, Cracow, Poland
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- Department of General, Oncological, Metabolic and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of General, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of General, Oncological, Metabolic and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of General, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of General, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of General and Oncological Surgery, Ceynowa Hospital, Wejherowo, Poland
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- Department of General and Oncological Surgery, Ceynowa Hospital, Wejherowo, Poland
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- First Department of General and Endocrinological Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- First Department of General and Endocrinological Surgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of General, Gastroenterological and Oncological Surgery CM, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Second Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland
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- Second Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland.
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Cheung J, West S, Boughton M. The Frontline Nurse's Experience of Nursing Outlier Patients. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:ijerph17145232. [PMID: 32698431 PMCID: PMC7400079 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17145232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Revised: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The frontline nurses' experience of nursing with overstretched resources in acute care setting can affect their health and well-being. Little is known about the experience of registered nurses faced with the care of a patient outside their area of expertise. The aim of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of nursing the outlier patient, when patients are nursed in a ward that is not specifically developed to deal with the major clinical diagnosis involved (e.g., renal patient in gynecology ward). Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, eleven individual face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with registered nurses in New South Wales, Australia. The study identified that each nurse had a specialty construct developed from nursing in a specialized environment. Each nurse had normalized the experience of specialty nursing and had developed a way of thinking and practicing theorized as a "care ladder". By grouping and analyzing various "care ladders" together, the nursing capacities common to nurses formed the phenomenological orientation, namely "the composite care ladder". Compared to nursing specialty-appropriate patients, nursing the outlier patient caused disruption of the care ladder, with some nurses becoming less capable as they were nursing the outlier patient. Nursing the outlier patient disrupted the nurses' normalized constructs of nursing. This study suggests that nursing patients in specialty-appropriate wards will improve patient outcomes and reduce impacts on the nurses' morale.
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- Jasmine Cheung
- School of Nursing, Tung Wah College, Hong Kong, China
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +852-3468-6824
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- Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; (S.W.); (M.B.)
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- Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; (S.W.); (M.B.)
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