Coronary angioplasty volume-outcome relationships for hospitals and cardiologists

E. L. Hannan, M. Racz, T. J. Ryan, B. D. McCallister, L. W. Johnson, D. T. Arani, A. D. Guerci, J. Sosa and E. J. Topol
State University of New York at Albany, 12144-3456, USA.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between each of 2 provider volume measures (annual hospital volume and annual cardiologist volume) for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and 2 outcomes of PTCA (in-hospital mortality and same-stay coronary artery bypass graft [CABG] surgery). DESIGN: Cohort study, using data from January 1, 1991, through December 31, 1994, from the Coronary Angioplasty Reporting System of the New York State Department of Health. SETTING: Thirty-one hospitals in New York State in which PTCA was performed during 1991-1994. PATIENTS: All 62670 patients discharged after undergoing PTCA in these hospitals during 1991-1994. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Rates of in-hospital mortality and CABG surgery during the same stay as the PTCA. RESULTS: The overall in-hospital mortality rate for patients undergoing PTCA in New York during 1991-1994 was 0.90%, and the same-stay CABG surgery rate was 3.43%. Patients undergoing PTCA in hospitals with annual PTCA volumes less than 600 experienced a significantly higher risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality rate of 0.96% (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.91%-1.01%) and risk-adjusted same-stay CABG surgery rate of 3.92% (95% CI, 3.76%-4.08%). Patients undergoing PTCA by cardiologists with annual PTCA volumes less than 75 had mortality rates of 1.03% (95% CI, 0.91%-1.17%) and same-stay CABG surgery rates of 3.93% (95% CI, 3.65%-4.24%); both of these rates were also significantly higher than the rates for all patients. Also, same-stay CABG surgery rates for patients undergoing PTCA in hospitals with annual volumes of 600 to 999 performed by cardiologists with annual volumes of 75 to 174 (2.99%; 95% CI, 2.69%-3.31 %) and 175 or more (2.84%; 95% CI, 2.57%-3.14%) were significantly lower than the overall statewide rate (3.43%). CONCLUSIONS: In New York State, both hospital PTCA volume and cardiologist PTCA volume are significantly inversely related to in-hospital mortality rate and same-stay CABG surgery rate for patients undergoing PTCA.

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