The clinical features of patients: transfered by "Qilu " interhospital transfer center / 中华急诊医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore new models for interhospital transfer and provide theoretical basis for the interhospital transfer system construction through analyzing the clinical features of the patients transfered by "Qilu" interhospital transfer center.Methods Totally 258 patients aged over 18 years who were transferred to or from Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from August 2014 to December 2016 were analyzed.The data including sex,age,transport index,modified early warning score (MEWS) and outcome of patients with successful transport were collected.According to the results,the transferred patients were divided into the improved group and the non-improved group,and the differences of the above indicators between the two groups were analyzed.In the numerical variable analysis,Student's t test or Mann-whitney non-parametric test was applied,and the categorical variable was applied with x2 test.The correlation between clinical indicators and outcomes of the patients was analyzed by logistic regression analysis.Results The total transfer success rate was 98.5％.The transported male patients were more than female patients.Patients transferred to Qilu Hospital were mainly diagnosed with nervous system disease,trauma and circulatory system disease,and patients transferred from QiLu Hospital were respiratory disease,circulatory system disease,and nervous system disease.Tracheal intubation,tracheotomy,and invasive mechanical ventilation rates were 11.9％-22.2％.The patients ratio of transferred from Qilu Hospital with vasoactive drugs and the ratio of patients with deep venous catheter were three times and five times than those transferred to Qilu Hospital.Eighty-one percent patients transferred to Qilu Hospital recovered,and 45.5％ patients transferred from the hospital recovered.The age,heart rate,MEWS score,length of stay,ICU ratio,mechanical ventilation ratio and tracheal intubation ratio were significantly different between the improved group and the non-improved group (P＜0.05).Among the critically patients transferred to ICU,the length of stay was correlated with the outcome of the improvement.(OR=1.213,95％CI1.085-1.357).Conclusions "Qilu" Interhospital Transfer Center has a high success rate and high recovery rate of patients,and can be a new model for the construction of interhospital transfer system.