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Table 2 Variation in mortality and high cost admissions by diagnosis and transplant hospital status

From: Factors associated with adverse outcomes from cardiovascular events in the kidney transplant population: an analysis of national discharge data, hospital characteristics, and process measures

Primary CV diagnosis

Mortality

High cost (in the top quartile)

Non-transplant hospital

Transplant hospital

p-value

Non-transplant hospital

Transplant hospital

p-value

MI (410.x)

7.0%

7.9%

0.68

44.3%

51.2%

0.10

(27/383)

(24/305)

(143/323)

(125/244)

Stroke (997.x/436/437.1)

5.7%

3.5%

0.17

41.1%

45.1%

0.34

(14/247)

(16/461)

(85/207)

(185/410)

CHF (428.x)

3.4%

2.3%

0.04

23.1%

24.1%

0.48

(72/2110)

(46/1968)

(417/1807)

(389/1614)

Dysrhythmia (427.x)

4.7%

4.0%

0.25

21.5%

27.3%

< 0.001

(101/2138)

(81/2027)

(395/1838)

(466/1704)

Cardiac arrest (427.5/997.1)

34.1%

31.4%

0.69

57.3%

73.5%

0.03

(29/85)

(32/102)

(43/75)

(61/83)

Malignant HTN (402.x)

0

0

 

9.3%

13.2%

0.49

(5/54)

(10–76)