Observational studyJournal of hospital medicine2016
Interhospital transfer patients discharged by academic hospitalists and general internists: Characteristics and outcomes.
Observational study in Journal of hospital medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
51 citing papers in PubMed.
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Potentially Avoidable Interhospital Transfers.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Testing Transferability of a Mortality Risk Model for Interhospital Transfer Using Real-World Electronic Health Records: External Validation and Model Enhancement.Critical care explorations · 2026Article
- From Challenges to Solutions: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Inter-hospital Transfer Processes.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Re-envisioning interhospital transfer: A qualitative study exploring alternatives to transfer.Journal of hospital medicine · 2025Article
- A Validation Study of the Paediatric Non-Urgent Risk Assessment Management and Nurse Escort Assessment (PaNURAMA) Tool for Paediatric Inter-Hospital Transfers.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2025Article
- Development of a Tool to Measure Potentially Inappropriate Inter-Hospital Transfer (IHT): The POINT Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- The Impact of a Novel Transfer Process on Patient Bed Days and Length of Stay: A Five-Year Comparative Study at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and Mankato Quaternary and Tertiary Care Centers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- User Requirements and Conceptual Design for an Electronic Data Platform for Interhospital Transfer Between Acute Care Hospitals: User-Centered Design Study.JMIR human factors · 2025Article
- A proposed method for identifying Interfacility transfers in Medicare claims data.Health services research · 2025Observational
- Improving the safety of outpatient to Emergency Department transfers: A quality improvement study in a tertiary hospital in Pakistan.PloS one · 2025Article
- The Impact of Hospital Affiliation on Hospital Transfer Practices.Health services insights · 2025Article
- Elderly patients re-transferred from long-term care hospitals to emergency departments within 48 h.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Impact of Interhospital Transfer on Outcomes in Acute Pancreatitis: Implications for Healthcare Quality.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Outcomes of Patients Transferred to Tertiary Center by Life-Saving System in Saudi Arabia. A Propensity Score Matching Observational Study.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2024Article
- Information exchange, responsibilities and expectation management in interhospital transfers: a qualitative study of hospital medicine physicians and advanced practice providers.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- Effect of Inter-Hospital Transfer on Mortality in Patients Admitted through the Emergency Department.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Advancing health information during interhospital transfer: An interrupted time series.Journal of hospital medicine · 2023Article
- Implementation of a standardised accept note to improve communication during inter-hospital transfer: a prospective cohort study.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
- The invisible work of transfer centre nurses: A qualitative study of strategies to overcome communication challenges.Journal of advanced nursing · 2023Article
- Effect of emergency physician-operated emergency short-stay ward on emergency department stay length and clinical outcomes: a case-control study.BMC emergency medicine · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundPrior work suggests interhospital transfer (IHT) may be a risky event. Outcomes for patients transferred from another acute care institution and discharged by hospitalists and general internists at academic health systems are not well described.
objectiveInvestigate the characteristics and outcomes of IHT patients compared with patients admitted from the emergency department (ED) to academic health systems.
designRetrospective cohort study. SETTING/PATIENTS: A total of 885,392 adult inpatients discharged by hospitalists or general internal medicine physicians from 158 academic medical centers and affiliated hospitals participating in the University HealthSystem Consortium Clinical Database and Resource Manager from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012.
methodsPatient cohorts were defined by admission source: those from another acute care institution were IHTs, and those coming through the ED whose source of origination was not another hospital or ambulatory surgery site were ED admissions. In-hospital mortality was our primary outcome. We analyzed our data using descriptive statistics, t tests, χ(2) tests, and logistic regression.
resultsCompared with ED admissions, IHT patients had a longer average length of stay, higher proportion of time spent in the intensive care unit, higher costs per hospital day, lower frequency of discharges home, and higher inpatient mortality (4.1% vs 1.8%, P < 0.01). After adjusting for patient characteristics and risk of mortality measures, IHT patients had a higher risk of in-hospital death (odds ratio: 1.36, 95% confidence interval: 1.29-1.43).
conclusionsIn this large national sample, IHT status is independently associated with inpatient mortality.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.