Publication date: Available online 18 May 2017
Source:The Journal of Emergency Medicine
Author(s): Aleksandr Rozenberg, Timothy Danish, Viktor Y. Dombrovskiy, Todd R. Vogel
BackgroundThe 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.ObjectivesThe 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.MethodsThe 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.ResultsThere 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).ConclusionsNationally, 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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