Canadian benchmarks for acute injury care

Lynne Moore, David Evans, Natalie L. Yanchar, Jaimini Thakore, Henry Thomas Stelfox, Morad Hameed, Richard Simons, John Kortbeek, Julien Clément, François Lauzier, Alexis F. Turgeon

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Abstract

Background: Acute care injury outcomes vary substantially across Canadian provinces and trauma centres. Our aim was to develop Canadian benchmarks to monitor mortality and hospital length of stay (LOS) for injury admissions. Methods: Benchmarks were derived using data from the Canadian National Trauma Registry on patients with major trauma admitted to any level I or II trauma centre in Canada and from the following patient subgroups: isolated traumatic brain injury (TBI), isolated thoracoabdominal injury, multisystem blunt injury, age 65 years or older. We assessed predictive validity using measures of discrimination and calibration, and performed sensitivity analyses to assess the impact of replacing analytically complex methods (multiple imputation, shrinkage estimates and flexible modelling) with simple models that can be implemented locally. Results: The mortality risk adjustment model had excellent discrimination and calibration (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.886, Hosmer-Lemeshow 36). The LOS risk-adjustment model predicted 29% of the variation in LOS. Overall, observed:expected ratios of mortality and mean LOS generated by an analytically simple model correlated strongly with those generated by analytically complex models (r > 0.95, κ on outliers > 0.90). Conclusion: We propose Canadian benchmarks that can be used to monitor quality of care in Canadian trauma centres using Excel (see the appendices, available at canjsurg. ca). The program can be implemented using local trauma registries, providing that at least 100 patients are available for analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)380-387
Number of pages8
JournalCanadian Journal of Surgery
Volume60
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes

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Funding Information:
Funding: L. Moore, H. Stelfox and A. Turgeon are supported by a

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© 2017 Joule Inc. or its licensors.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Surgery

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