ArticleBMJ open2013
Which factors influence decisions to transfer and treat patients with acute intracerebral haemorrhage and which are associated with prognosis? A retrospective cohort study.
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- The influence of direct transportation to neurosurgical-capable medical centers on the clinical outcomes of patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in urban area: a two-center retrospective study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- A real-world demonstration of machine learning generalizability in the detection of intracranial hemorrhage on head computerized tomography.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo identify factors associated with the decision to transfer and/or operate on patients with intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) at a UK regional neurosurgical centre and test whether these decisions were associated with patient survival.
designRetrospective cohort study.
setting14 acute and specialist hospitals served by the neurosurgical unit at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK.
participantsAll patients referred acutely to neurosurgery from January 2008 to October 2010. OUTCOME MEASURES: Primary outcome was survival and secondary outcomes were transfer to the neurosurgical centre and acute neurosurgery.
resultsWe obtained clinical data from 1364 consecutive spontaneous patients with ICH and 1175 cases were included in the final analysis. 140 (12%) patients were transferred and 75 (6%) had surgery. In a multifactorial analysis, the decision to transfer was more likely with younger age, women, brainstem and cerebellar location and larger haematomas. Risk of death in the following year was higher with advancing age, lower Glasgow Coma Scale, larger haematomas, brainstem ICH and intraventricular haemorrhage. The transferred patients had a lower risk of death relative to those remaining at the referring centre whether they had surgery (HR 0.46, 95% CI 0.32 to 0.67) or not (HR 0.41, 95% CI 0.22 to 0.73). Acute management decisions were included in the regression model for the 227 patients under either stroke medicine or neurosurgery at the neurosurgical centre and early do-not-resuscitate orders accounted for much of the observed difference, independently associated with an increased risk of death (HR 4.8, 95% CI 2.7 to 8.6).
conclusionsThe clear association between transfer to a specialist centre and survival, independent of established prognostic factors, suggests aggressive supportive care at a specialist centre may improve survival in ICH and warrants further investigation in prospective studies.
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