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 Barnett Erin A Bohula Sunit-Preet Chaudhry Meshe D ChondeHoward A CooperLori B Daniels Mark W Dodson Daniel Gerber Michael J Goldfarb Jianping GuoMichael C KontosShuangbo Liu Adriana C Luk Venugopal Menon Connor G O'Brien Alexander I Papolos Barbara A Pisani Brian J PotterRajnish PrasadGregory SchnellKevin S ShahLakshmi Sridharan Derek Y F So Jeffrey J Teuteberg Wayne J Tymchak Sammy ZakariaJason N KatzDavid A Morrow Sean Van Diepen

Published 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.

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