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Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study

BACKGROUND: Although the effects of the trauma center(TC) were researched in several studies, there have been few studies on changes in the regional mortality due to the implementation of a TC. An emergency medical center (EMC) and TC were implemented at Nagasaki University Hospital (NUH) for the fi...

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Autores principales: Takahashi, Yuji, Sato, Shuntaro, Yamashita, Kazunori, Matsumoto, Naoya, Nozaki, Yoshihiro, Hirao, Tomohito, Tajima, Goro, Inokuma, Takamitsu, Yamano, Shuhei, Takahashi, Kensuke, Miyamoto, Takashi, Inoue, Kenichiro, Osaki, Makoto, Tasaki, Osamu
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2018-000291
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author Takahashi, Yuji
Sato, Shuntaro
Yamashita, Kazunori
Matsumoto, Naoya
Nozaki, Yoshihiro
Hirao, Tomohito
Tajima, Goro
Inokuma, Takamitsu
Yamano, Shuhei
Takahashi, Kensuke
Miyamoto, Takashi
Inoue, Kenichiro
Osaki, Makoto
Tasaki, Osamu
author_facet Takahashi, Yuji
Sato, Shuntaro
Yamashita, Kazunori
Matsumoto, Naoya
Nozaki, Yoshihiro
Hirao, Tomohito
Tajima, Goro
Inokuma, Takamitsu
Yamano, Shuhei
Takahashi, Kensuke
Miyamoto, Takashi
Inoue, Kenichiro
Osaki, Makoto
Tasaki, Osamu
author_sort Takahashi, Yuji
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Although the effects of the trauma center(TC) were researched in several studies, there have been few studies on changes in the regional mortality due to the implementation of a TC. An emergency medical center (EMC) and TC were implemented at Nagasaki University Hospital (NUH) for the first time in the Nagasaki medical region of Japan in April 2010 and October 2011, respectively, and they have cooperated with each other in treating trauma patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on the early mortality at population level of a TC working in cooperation with an EMC. METHODS: This is a retrospective study using standardized regional data (ambulance service record) in Nagasaki medical region from April 2007 through March 2017. We included 19,045 trauma patients directly transported from the scene. The outcome measures were prognosis for one week. To examine the association between the implementation of the EMC and TC and mortality at a region, we fit adjusted logistic regression models. RESULTS: The number of patients of each fiscal year increased from 1492 in 2007 to 2101 in 2016. The number of all patients transported to NUH decreased until 2009 to 70, but increased after implementation of the EMC and TC. Overall mortality of all patients in the region improved from 2.3% in 2007 to 1.0% in 2016. In multivariate logistic regression model, odds ratio of death was significantly smaller at 2013 and thereafter if the data from 2007 to 2011 was taken as reference. CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of the EMC and TC was associated with early mortality in trauma patients directly transported from the scene by ambulance. Our analysis suggested that the implementation of EMC and TC contributed to the improvement of the early mortality at a regional city with 500000 populations. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III.
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spelling pubmed-65604722019-06-26 Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study Takahashi, Yuji Sato, Shuntaro Yamashita, Kazunori Matsumoto, Naoya Nozaki, Yoshihiro Hirao, Tomohito Tajima, Goro Inokuma, Takamitsu Yamano, Shuhei Takahashi, Kensuke Miyamoto, Takashi Inoue, Kenichiro Osaki, Makoto Tasaki, Osamu Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 4th World Trauma Congress Article BACKGROUND: Although the effects of the trauma center(TC) were researched in several studies, there have been few studies on changes in the regional mortality due to the implementation of a TC. An emergency medical center (EMC) and TC were implemented at Nagasaki University Hospital (NUH) for the first time in the Nagasaki medical region of Japan in April 2010 and October 2011, respectively, and they have cooperated with each other in treating trauma patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on the early mortality at population level of a TC working in cooperation with an EMC. METHODS: This is a retrospective study using standardized regional data (ambulance service record) in Nagasaki medical region from April 2007 through March 2017. We included 19,045 trauma patients directly transported from the scene. The outcome measures were prognosis for one week. To examine the association between the implementation of the EMC and TC and mortality at a region, we fit adjusted logistic regression models. RESULTS: The number of patients of each fiscal year increased from 1492 in 2007 to 2101 in 2016. The number of all patients transported to NUH decreased until 2009 to 70, but increased after implementation of the EMC and TC. Overall mortality of all patients in the region improved from 2.3% in 2007 to 1.0% in 2016. In multivariate logistic regression model, odds ratio of death was significantly smaller at 2013 and thereafter if the data from 2007 to 2011 was taken as reference. CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of the EMC and TC was associated with early mortality in trauma patients directly transported from the scene by ambulance. Our analysis suggested that the implementation of EMC and TC contributed to the improvement of the early mortality at a regional city with 500000 populations. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6560472/ /pubmed/31245618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2018-000291 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. 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/.
spellingShingle 4th World Trauma Congress Article
Takahashi, Yuji
Sato, Shuntaro
Yamashita, Kazunori
Matsumoto, Naoya
Nozaki, Yoshihiro
Hirao, Tomohito
Tajima, Goro
Inokuma, Takamitsu
Yamano, Shuhei
Takahashi, Kensuke
Miyamoto, Takashi
Inoue, Kenichiro
Osaki, Makoto
Tasaki, Osamu
Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study
title Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study
title_full Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study
title_fullStr Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study
title_full_unstemmed Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study
title_short Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study
title_sort effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in japan: a population-based study
topic 4th World Trauma Congress Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2018-000291
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