Should money follow the patient: Financial implication for being the National Centre for the Treatment and Management of Pelvic and Acetabular Fractures in Ireland

Background

Pelvic and acetabular fractures are complex injuries requiring specialist treatment. Our institution is the National Centre for Treatment and Management of these injuries.

Aim

To audit all referrals to our institution over a 6-month period and calculate the cost incurred by being the national referral centre.

Methods

Retrospective review of database, and subsequent allocation of Casemix points to assess total cost of treatment for each patient referred to our institution.

Results

103 patients referred with pelvic or acetabular fracture for operative management. The furthest referral distance was 181 miles. Over-all, the length of stay was 15.4 days. The average inclusive cost for a referral to our unit for operative management was €16,302.

Conclusion

Pelvic and acetabular fractures are complex injuries that require specialist referral unit management. However for these units to remain sustainable money needs to “follow the patient”.     

汶川地震医疗救援中的伤员接诊处置与转出管理

汶川地震医疗救援中，华西医院作为四川省重症伤员集中收治医院，立即从常态转到双轨应急状态，充分调度人力、物力，扩大骨科床位至680张；按伤员伤情进程分期重点处理、优化地震伤员接诊处置流程，保证有效救治；建立地震伤员转出通道。截至2008年6月2日，医院共接诊地震伤员2618例，向就近基层医院转诊经治疗病情稳定的轻症伤员648例。     

‘Juggling amidst complexity’ – Hospice staff's experience of providing palliative care for infants referred from a neonatal unit

Hospice has been pivotal to children's palliative care provision in the United Kingdom (UK) for more than 3 decades. Some hospices have recently expanded to include care of infants transferred from neonatal units as well as antenatal referrals. Despite developments evidence suggests hospice care is often not offered to parents in neonatal units (NNU). This study examines perspectives of 17 staff from 3 children's hospices regarding the challenges and opportunities caring for infants in hospice. Data was collected from 3 focus groups and analysed using a thematic approach. Findings suggest that hospice staff juggle many complex issues when caring for infants at the end-of-life. Such issues centre round the referral process from hospital services borne from an apparent reluctance of hospital staff to let go, through involving hospice. Education, partnership working, planning for all possible outcomes seems crucial in further developing quality palliative care for infants and their families.     

Vascular access for hemodialysis: arteriovenous fistula

The long-term survival and quality of life of patients on hemodialysis (HD) is dependant on the adequacy of dialysis via an appropriately placed vascular access. The optimal vascular access is unquestionably the autologous arteriovenous fistula (AVF), with the most common method being the conventional radio-cephalic fistula at the wrist. Recent clinical practice guidelines recommend the creation of native fistula or synthetic graft before the start of chronic HD therapy to prevent the need for complication-prone dialysis catheters. This could also have a beneficial effect on the rapidity of worsening kidney failure. A multidisciplinary approach (nephrologists, surgeons, radiologists and nurses) should improve the HD outcome by promoting the use of AVF. An important additional component of this program is the Doppler ultrasound for preoperative vascular mapping. Such an approach may be realized without unsuccessful surgical explorations, with a minimal early failure rate and a high maturation, even in patients with diabetes mellitus.     

MET理念用于医院社区转诊的探讨

随着社会不断进步,针对现有转诊标准的不足之处,本文借鉴国外MET的成功经验,从MET的基本内容、应用于社区医院转诊的措施等方面对改进现有转诊标准进行了探讨。     

供应驱动角度的双向转诊协同体系构建

双向转诊是有效配置区域上下级医疗机构间的医疗服务资源,构建合理分层就诊体系的重要举措.从供应驱动角度分析了双向转诊协同概念,指出了存在问题,提出了构建方法：完善供应链体系;协调供需平衡;信息实时共享;政策引导支持;与需求驱动互补等.     

Interhospital transfer of blunt multiply injured patients to a level 1 trauma center does not adversely affect outcome

Background

Stops at nontrauma centers for severely injured patients are thought to increase deaths and costs, potentially because of unnecessary imaging and indecisive/delayed care of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs).

Methods

We studied 754 consecutive blunt trauma patients with an Injury Severity Score greater than 20 with an emphasis on 212 patients who received care at other sites en route to our level 1 trauma center.

Results

Referred patients were older, more often women, and had more severe TBI (all P < .05). After correction for age, sex, and injury pattern, there was no difference in the type of TBI, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) upon arrival at the trauma center, or overall mortality between referred and directly admitted patients. GCS at the outside institution did not influence promptness of transfer.

Conclusions

Interhospital transfer does not affect the outcome of blunt trauma patients. However, the unnecessarily prolonged stay of low GCS patients in hospitals lacking neurosurgical care is inappropriate.     

164例骨科住院患者神经内科术前评估会诊病例分析

目的通过分析综合性医院骨科住院患者神经内科术前评估会诊的临床资料,探讨神经内科术前评估会诊骨科患者的意义。方法统计2011年5月1日至2012年4月30日神经内科术前评估会诊的骨科住院患者的临床资料。对申请会诊的骨科住院患者的一般情况、疾病诊断以及术前评估会诊内容、预后等进行统计分析。结果术前评估会诊患者共164例,男78例,女86例,年龄24～89（60．2±12.3）岁。脊柱骨科（37.8％,62／164）、创伤骨科（31．1％,51／164）及矫形骨科（23．2％,38／164）申请会诊数量最多。术前评估会诊种类：脑梗死101例（61．6％,101／164）最常见,其次为脑出血后遗症15例（9．1％,15／164）及帕金森病14例（8．5％,14／164）等。神经内科术前评估会诊意见包括：（1）指导患者围手术期用药,包括脑血管病、帕金森病、癫痫及其他神经系统疾病。（2）评估骨科术后脑梗死的风险,评价脑血管狭窄程度及侧支循环。（3）会诊需要检查的内容以经颅多普勒[52．4％（86／164）]、颈部血管超声[44．5％（73,164）]及头颅CT[37．8％（62／164）]最常见。（4）共取消手术8例。经术前会诊的患者仅有3例（2例老年痴呆患者,1例帕金森病患者）术后出现神经系统并发症。结论神经内科术前评估会诊骨科患者有利于降低其脑卒中风险,改善患者临床预后,避免出现神经系统并发症。     

2009-2012年深圳市南山区非结核病防治机构报告疑似肺结核患者到位情况分析

目的 分析南山区非结核病防治机构（简称“非结防机构”）报告疑似肺结核患者到位情况,探索提高非结防机构报告疑似肺结核患者总体到位率的方法。 方法 收集2009年1月至2012年12月10 520例深圳市南山区结核病管理信息系统中非结防机构报告疑似肺结核患者,对这些患者的转诊、到位、未到位数据资料进行线性趋势性χ^2检验分析,以P〈0.05为差异有统计学意义。 结果 2009—2012年深圳市南山区非结防机构对疑似肺结核患者的转诊到位率分别为55.76%（1709/3065）、50.90%（1470/2888）、49.21%（1149/2335）、50.45%（1126/2232）;追踪到位率分别为57.11%（699/1224）、49.29%（521/1057）、56.39%（375/665）、63.79%（303/475）;总体到位率分别为82.87%（2540/3065）、81.44%（2352/2888）、87.58%（2045/2335）、92.29%（2060/2232）。转诊到位率逐年呈下降趋势（χ趋势^2=17.89, P〈0.001）,而追踪到位率（χ趋势^2=4.04, P〈0.05）和总体到位率（χ趋势^2=113.31, P〈0.001）均呈上升趋势。 结论 通过采取综合干预措施,规范疑似肺结核患者转诊报告和追踪流程,使2009—2012年深圳市南山区非结防机构报告疑似肺结核患者的总体到位率逐年上升。