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ABSTRACT: Background
Little is known about the impact of rare diseases on inpatient outcomes.Objective
To compare outcomes of inpatients with 0, 1, or?>?1 rare disease. A catalogue of 628 ICD-10 coded rare diseases was applied to count rare diseases.Design
Retrospective, cross-sectional study.Subjects
165,908 inpatients, Swiss teaching hospital.Main measures
Primary outcome: in-hospital mortality.Secondary outcomes
length of stay (LOS), intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, ICU LOS, and 30-day readmissions. Associations with single and combined rare diseases were analyzed by multivariable regression.Key results
Patients with 1 rare disease were at increased risk of in-hospital death (odds ratio [OR]: 1.80; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.67, 1.95), combinations of rare diseases showed stronger associations (OR 2.78; 95% CI 2.39, 3.23). Females with 1 rare disease had an OR of 1.69 (95% CI 1.50, 1.91) for in-hospital death, an OR of 2.99 (95% CI 2.36, 3.79) if they had a combination of rare diseases. Males had an OR of 1.85 (95% CI 1.68, 2.04) and 2.61 (95% CI 2.15, 3.16), respectively. Rare diseases were associated with longer LOS (for 1 and?>?1 rare diseases: increase by 28 and 49%), ICU admissions (for 1 and?>?1: OR 1.64 [95% CI 1.57, 1.71] and 2.23 [95% CI 2.01, 2.48]), longer ICU LOS (for 1 and?>?1 rare diseases: increase by 14 and 40%), and 30-day readmissions (for 1 and?>?1: OR 1.57 [95% CI 1.47, 1.68] and 1.64 [95% CI 1.37, 1.96]).Conclusions
Rare diseases are independently associated with worse inpatient outcomes. This might be the first study suggesting even stronger associations of combined rare diseases with in-hospital deaths, increased LOS, ICU admissions, increased ICU LOS, and 30-day readmissions.
SUBMITTER: Blazsik RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7913458 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blazsik Reka Maria RM Beeler Patrick Emanuel PE Tarcak Karol K Cheetham Marcus M von Wyl Viktor V Dressel Holger H
Orphanet journal of rare diseases 20210227 1
<h4>Background</h4>Little is known about the impact of rare diseases on inpatient outcomes.<h4>Objective</h4>To compare outcomes of inpatients with 0, 1, or > 1 rare disease. A catalogue of 628 ICD-10 coded rare diseases was applied to count rare diseases.<h4>Design</h4>Retrospective, cross-sectional study.<h4>Subjects</h4>165,908 inpatients, Swiss teaching hospital.<h4>Main measures</h4>Primary outcome: in-hospital mortality.<h4>Secondary outcomes</h4>length of stay (LOS), intensive care unit ( ...[more]