Medscape January 24, 2025
Patient demographics and outcomes are similar at academic and community hospitals in Ontario, new research indicates.
A retrospective cohort study included all adult general medicine patients admitted to or discharged from 28 hospitals in Ontario, Canada, between April 2015 and December 2021.
Researchers compared demographic and clinical characteristics (including age, sex, acute physiology scores, discharge diagnosis, comorbidity status, frailty risk, and disability and social factors) for patients at academic and community hospitals. They also compared clinical outcomes and processes, such as patient volume per physician, in-hospital mortality, length of stay, readmissions, and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions.
Of 947,070 admissions (609,696 at 17 community hospitals and 337,374 at 11 academic hospitals), demographic and social characteristics, including income, education, and...
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