Hospitals will higher proportions of geriatric trauma patients report lower in-hospital mortality, fewer major complications and less failure-to-rescue than hospitals that treat more nongeriatric trauma patients, according to an article in JAMA Surgery.
Researchers analyzed patient data from the Pennsylvania Trauma Outcome Study collected between 2001 and 2010.
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The study was originally conducted to test idea that improved surgical outcomes are tied to case volumes of high-risk groups, such as geriatric patients. That geriatric trauma patients actually show better outcomes than nongeriatric patients may be a result of "differentiated pathways of care" for the older group, according to the study authors.
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