Safety of early hospital discharge following admission with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with percutaneous coronary intervention: a nationwide cohort studyShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: EuroIntervention, ISSN 1774-024X, E-ISSN 1969-6213, Vol. 17, no 13, p. 1091-1099, article id EIJ-D-21-00501Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
BACKGROUND: The Second Primary Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (PAMI-II) risk score is recommended by guidelines to identify low-risk patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) for an early discharge strategy.
AIMS: We aimed to assess the safety of early discharge (≤2 days) for low-risk STEMI patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
METHODS: Using nationwide data from the SWEDEHEART registry, we identified patients with STEMI treated with primary PCI during the period 2009-2017, of whom 8,092 (26.4%) were identified as low risk with the PAMI-II score. Low-risk patients were stratified according to their length of hospital stay (≤2 days vs >2 days). The primary endpoint was major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE, including death, reinfarction treated with PCI, stroke or heart failure hospitalisation) at one year, assessed using a Cox proportional hazards model with propensity score as well as an inverse probability weighting propensity score of average treatment effect to adjust for confounders.
RESULTS: A total of 1,449 (17.9%) patients were discharged ≤2 days from admission. After adjustment, the one-year MACE rate was not higher for patients discharged at >2 days from admission than for patients discharged ≤2 days (4.3% vs 3.2%; adjusted HR 1.31, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.92-1.87, p=0.14), and no difference was observed regarding any of the individual components of the main outcome. Results were consistent across all subgroups with no difference in MACE between early and late discharge patients.
CONCLUSIONS: Nationwide observational data suggest that early discharge of low-risk patients with STEMI treated with PCI is not associated with an increase in one-year MACE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
European Society of Cardiology , 2022. Vol. 17, no 13, p. 1091-1099, article id EIJ-D-21-00501
Keywords [en]
early discharge, length of hospital stay PAMI-II, STEMI
National Category
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Disease
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-97238DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-21-00501ISI: 000760455500010PubMedID: 34338642Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85123879447OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-97238DiVA, id: diva2:1635467
Note
Funding agencies:
Bundy Academy
Anna-Lisa and Sven-Eric Lundgren Foundation for medical research
Marta Winkler Foundation
2022-02-072022-02-072025-02-10Bibliographically approved