背景:在看门系统中,个别医生的转诊实践是医院活动和患者安全的重要因素。
目的:本研究的目的是调查非工作时间(OOH)医生转诊实践的变化,并探索这些变化对反映严重程度的选定诊断的入院的影响,30天死亡率
方法:来自医生索赔数据库的国家数据与挪威患者登记处的医院数据相关联。根据医生的个人转诊率,根据当地组织因素进行调整,医生们被分类为低四分位数,中低,中高,和高推荐实践。使用广义线性模型计算所有转诊和选定出院诊断的相对风险(RR)。
结果:OOH医生的平均转诊率为每1000次咨询110次转诊。在最高转诊练习四分位数看医生的患者被转诊到医院并被诊断出喉咙和胸部疼痛症状的可能性更高,腹痛,与中低四分位数(RR1.63、1.49和1.95)相比,头晕。对于急性心肌梗死的危急情况,急性阑尾炎,肺栓塞,和中风,我们发现了类似的,但较弱,协会(RR1.38、1.32、1.24和1.19)。未转诊的患者的30天死亡率在四分位数之间没有差异。
结论:具有高转诊实践的医生转诊了更多的患者,这些患者后来出院并进行了所有类型的诊断,包括严重和危急的情况。在低转诊实践中,严重的情况可能被忽视了,尽管30日死亡率没有受到影响.
初级保健医生非工作时间(OOH)的主要任务是将需要急性专科护理的患者转诊到医院。急性转诊抓住了在不使医院容量超负荷的情况下不错过重症患者的主要困境。OOH医生之间的转诊实践存在已知差异,在这里,我们问这种变化对OOH患者有什么影响。我们将挪威的OOH医生根据他们的转诊实践低分为4组,中低,中高,和高。Low在咨询总数中所占的比例很少,而高级集团有很多。如果患者在高转诊组中看了医生,被转诊到医院并给出症状诊断的可能性增加,表明没有发现严重的疾病。因此,高转诊做法可能会导致更多可避免的入院。然而,我们还发现,对于一些危急情况(心脏病,急性阑尾炎,肺栓塞,和中风)。因此,低转诊可能会增加危急情况被忽视的风险.应考虑到转诊做法差异的这些方面,并要求加强OOH关于急性转诊的决策框架。
In a gatekeeping system, the individual doctor\'s referral practice is an important factor for hospital activity and patient safety.
The aim of the study was to investigate the variation in out-of-hours (OOH) doctors\' referral practice, and to explore these variations\' impact on admissions for selected diagnoses reflecting severity, and 30-day mortality.
National data from the doctors\' claims database were linked with hospital data in the Norwegian Patient Registry. Based on the doctor\'s individual referral rate adjusted for local organizational factors, the doctors were sorted into quartiles of low-, medium-low-, medium-high-, and high-referral practice. The relative risk (RR) for all referrals and for selected discharge diagnoses was calculated using generalized linear models.
The OOH doctors\' mean referral rate was 110 referrals per 1,000 consultations. Patients seeing a doctor in the highest referring practice quartile had higher likelihood of being referred to hospital and diagnosed with the symptom of pain in throat and chest, abdominal pain, and dizziness compared with the medium-low quartile (RR 1.63, 1.49, and 1.95). For the critical conditions of acute myocardial infarction, acute appendicitis, pulmonary embolism, and stroke, we found a similar, but weaker, association (RR 1.38, 1.32, 1.24, and 1.19). The 30-day mortality among patients not referred did not differ between the quartiles.
Doctors with high-referral practice referred more patients who were later discharged with all types of diagnoses, including serious and critical conditions. With low-referral practice, severe conditions might have been overlooked, although the 30-day mortality was not affected.
A major task for primary care doctors working out-of-hours (OOH) is to refer patients in need of acute specialized care to hospital. Acute referrals capture the major dilemma of not missing critically ill patients without overloading the hospital capacity. There is a known variation in referral practice between OOH doctors, and here we asked what impact this variation has for OOH patients. We divided OOH doctors in Norway into 4 groups according to their referral practice low, medium-low, medium-high, and high. Low had few referrals as a proportion of the total consultations, while the high group had many. If the patient saw a doctor in the high-referral group, there was an increased likelihood to be referred to hospital and given a symptom diagnosis, indicating that no severe disease was revealed. High-referral practice therefore may lead to more avoidable admissions. However, we also found the same but weaker effect for some critical conditions (heart infarction, acute appendicitis, pulmonary embolism, and stroke). Therefore, a low-referral practice may increase the risk of critical conditions being overlooked. These aspects of referral practice variation should be taken into consideration and call for strengthening the OOH framework for decision making regarding acute referrals.