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Regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Tuscany, Italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data
OBJECTIVES: To explore determinants of practice variation in both access, and quality and efficiency of surgical care for pelvic organ prolapse (POP). DESIGN AND SETTING: A retrospective cohort study employing administrative health data from the Tuscany region, Italy. PARTICIPANTS: All women over 40...
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author | Ferrari, Amerigo Giannini, Andrea Seghieri, Chiara Simoncini, Tommaso Vainieri, Milena |
author_facet | Ferrari, Amerigo Giannini, Andrea Seghieri, Chiara Simoncini, Tommaso Vainieri, Milena |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To explore determinants of practice variation in both access, and quality and efficiency of surgical care for pelvic organ prolapse (POP). DESIGN AND SETTING: A retrospective cohort study employing administrative health data from the Tuscany region, Italy. PARTICIPANTS: All women over 40 years hospitalised for apical/multicompartmental POP reconstructive surgery (excluding anterior/posterior colporrhaphy without concomitant hysterectomy) from January 2017 to December 2019. OUTCOMES: We first computed treatment rates just for women residing in Tuscany (n=2819) and calculated the Systematic Component of Variation (SCV) to explore variation in access to care among health districts. Then, using the full cohort (n=2959), we ran multilevel models for the average length of stay and reoperations, readmissions and complications, and computed the intraclass correlation coefficient to assess the individual and hospital determinants of efficiency and quality of care provided by hospitals. RESULTS: The 5.4-fold variation between the lowest-rate (56/100 000 inhabitants) and the highest-rate (302/100 000) districts and the SCV over 10% confirmed high systematic variation in the access to care. Higher treatment rates were driven by greater provisions of robotic and/or laparoscopic interventions, which showed highly variable usage rates. Both individual and hospital factors influenced quality and efficiency provided by hospitals, but just low proportions of variation were explained by hospital and patient characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: We found high and systematic variation in the access to POP surgical care in Tuscany and in quality and efficiency provided by hospitals. Such a variation may be mainly explained by user and provider preferences, which should be further explored. Also, supply-side factors may be involved, suggesting that wider and more uniform dissemination of robotic/laparoscopic procedures may reduce variation. |
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spelling | pubmed-100084032023-03-13 Regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Tuscany, Italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data Ferrari, Amerigo Giannini, Andrea Seghieri, Chiara Simoncini, Tommaso Vainieri, Milena BMJ Open Obstetrics and Gynaecology OBJECTIVES: To explore determinants of practice variation in both access, and quality and efficiency of surgical care for pelvic organ prolapse (POP). DESIGN AND SETTING: A retrospective cohort study employing administrative health data from the Tuscany region, Italy. PARTICIPANTS: All women over 40 years hospitalised for apical/multicompartmental POP reconstructive surgery (excluding anterior/posterior colporrhaphy without concomitant hysterectomy) from January 2017 to December 2019. OUTCOMES: We first computed treatment rates just for women residing in Tuscany (n=2819) and calculated the Systematic Component of Variation (SCV) to explore variation in access to care among health districts. Then, using the full cohort (n=2959), we ran multilevel models for the average length of stay and reoperations, readmissions and complications, and computed the intraclass correlation coefficient to assess the individual and hospital determinants of efficiency and quality of care provided by hospitals. RESULTS: The 5.4-fold variation between the lowest-rate (56/100 000 inhabitants) and the highest-rate (302/100 000) districts and the SCV over 10% confirmed high systematic variation in the access to care. Higher treatment rates were driven by greater provisions of robotic and/or laparoscopic interventions, which showed highly variable usage rates. Both individual and hospital factors influenced quality and efficiency provided by hospitals, but just low proportions of variation were explained by hospital and patient characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: We found high and systematic variation in the access to POP surgical care in Tuscany and in quality and efficiency provided by hospitals. Such a variation may be mainly explained by user and provider preferences, which should be further explored. Also, supply-side factors may be involved, suggesting that wider and more uniform dissemination of robotic/laparoscopic procedures may reduce variation. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10008403/ /pubmed/36882257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068145 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ferrari, Amerigo Giannini, Andrea Seghieri, Chiara Simoncini, Tommaso Vainieri, Milena Regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Tuscany, Italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data |
title | Regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Tuscany, Italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data |
title_full | Regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Tuscany, Italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data |
title_fullStr | Regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Tuscany, Italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data |
title_full_unstemmed | Regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Tuscany, Italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data |
title_short | Regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Tuscany, Italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data |
title_sort | regional practice variation in pelvic organ prolapse surgery in tuscany, italy: a retrospective cohort study on administrative health data |
topic | Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10008403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36882257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068145 |
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