Interhospital Variation in Admissions Managed With Critical Care Therapies or Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring in Tertiary Cardiac Intensive Care Units: An Analysis From the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry.
Sarah DonnellyChristopher F BarnettErin A BohulaSunit-Preet ChaudhryMeshe D ChondeHoward A CooperLori B DanielsMark W DodsonDaniel GerberMichael J GoldfarbJianping GuoMichael C KontosShuangbo LiuAdriana C LukVenugopal MenonConnor G O'BrienAlexander I PapolosBarbara A PisaniBrian J PotterRajnish PrasadGregory SchnellKevin S ShahLakshmi SridharanDerek Y F SoJeffrey J TeutebergWayne J TymchakSammy ZakariaJason N KatzDavid A MorrowSean Van DiepenPublished in: Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes (2024)
In a large registry of tertiary and academic CICUs, there was a >4-fold interhospital variation in the provision of CCRx that was primarily driven by differences in patient acuity compared with institutional differences. No differences were observed in adjusted mortality between low, intermediate, and high CCRx utilization sites.