Impact of Admission Month on Outcomes in Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Evidence Against the March Effect
- Authors
- 김현수; 박철완; 유찬종; 김은영; 김영보; 김우경
- Issue Date
- Jun-2013
- Publisher
- 대한뇌혈관외과학회
- Keywords
- Spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage; March effect; Mortality rate; July effect; Teaching hospital
- Citation
- Journal of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery, v.15, no.2, pp.67 - 75
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery
- Volume
- 15
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 67
- End Page
- 75
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/15502
- DOI
- 10.7461/jcen.2013.15.2.67
- ISSN
- 2234-8565
- Abstract
- Objective : We attempted to identify the presence of a so called ‘March effect (or phenomenon)’ (which had long been known as a ‘July effect’ in western countries), a transient increase in adverse outcomes during an unskilled period for new interns and residents in a teaching hospital, among a cohort of patients with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (sSAH).
Methods : A total of 455 consecutive patients with sSAH from our department database from 2008 to 2010 were enrolled retrospectively and the admission month, patient demographics and clinical characteristics, treatment modalities and discharge outcomes were analyzed. Multivariate regression analysis was used to determine whether unfavorable discharge and in-hospital mortality showed a significant increase during the unskilled months for new interns and residents (from March to May) in a pattern suggestive of a “March effect”.
Results : Among 455 patients with sSAH, 113 patients were treated during the unskilled period (from March to May) and the remaining 342 patients were treated during the skilled period (from June until February of the next year). No statistically significant difference in demographics and clinical characteristics was observed between patients treated during these periods. In addition, the mortality and unfavorable discharge rates of the un-skilled period were 16.8% and 29.7% and those of the skilled period were 15.5% and 27.2%, respectively. However, no statistically significant difference was observed between them.
Conclusions : Findings of our study suggest that there was no ‘March effect’ on the mortality rate and unfavorable discharge rate among patients with sSAH in our hospital during the study period.
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