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- Community versus academic hospital community-acquired pneumonia patients: a nested cohort studyPublication . Tsang, Jennifer L. Y.; Rego, Kian; Binnie, Alexandra; Binnie, Alexandra; Lee, Terry; Mccarthy, Anne; Cowan, Juthaporn; Archambault, Patrick; Lellouche, Francois; Turgeon, Alexis F.; Yoon, Jennifer; Lamontagne, Francois; Mcgeer, Allison; Douglas, Josh; Daley, Peter; Fowler, Robert; Maslove, David M.; Winston, Brent W.; Lee, Todd C.; Tran, Karen C.; Cheng, Matthew P.; Vinh, Donald C.; Boyd, John H.; Walley, Keith R.; Singer, Joel; Marshall, John C.; Haljan, Gregory; Jain, Fagun; Russell, James A.Background: Most Canadians receive their care in community hospitals, yet most clinical research is conducted in academic hospitals. This study aims to compare patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) treated in academic and community hospitals with respect to their demographics, clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes. Methods This nested observational cohort substudy of the Community Acquired Pneumonia: Toward InnoVAtive Treatment (CAPTIVATE) trial included 1,329 hospitalized adults with CAP recruited between March 1st, 2018 and September 31st, 2023 from 15 Canadian hospitals. Unadjusted and adjusted analyses for age, sex and co-morbidities using logistic, Cox and censored quantile regressions were conducted. Results Patients in community hospitals were older (mean [SD] 75.0 [15.7] years vs. 68.3 [16.2] years; p < 0.001), were more likely to be female (49.7% vs. 41.0%, p = 0.002), and had more comorbidities (75.9% vs. 64.8%, p < 0.001). More patients in community hospitals received corticosteroids (49.2% vs. 37.4%, p < 0.001). Community hospital patients had a higher likelihood of developing acute respiratory distress syndrome (OR 3.13, 95% CI: 1.87, 5.24, p = < 0.001), and acute cardiac injury (OR 2.53, 95% CI: 1.33, 4.83, p = 0.005). In unadjusted and adjusted analyses, 28-day mortality difference did not meet statistical significance (OR 1.43, 95% CI: 0.98, 20.7, p = 0.062 and OR 1.23, 95% CI: 0.81, 1.87, p = 0.332, respective). Conclusion Patients with CAP in Canadian community and academic hospitals differed with respect to their age, clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes, emphasizing the importance of including more community hospitals in clinical research studies to ensure the generalizability of results.
- Factors influencing community intensive care unit research participation: a qualitative descriptive studyPublication . Gehrke, Paige; Rego, Kian; Orlando, Elaina; Jack, Susan; Law, Madelyn; Cook, Deborah; Marticorena, Rosa M.; Binnie, Alexandra; Tsang, Jennifer L. Y.Purpose Community hospitals account for 90% of hospitals in Canada, but clinical research is mainly conducted in academic hospitals. Increasing community hospital research participation can improve generalizability of study results, while also accelerating study recruitment and increasing staff engagement. We aimed to identify and describe the factors that influence community intensive care unit (ICU) research participation and the development, implementation, and sustainability of a community ICU research program.MethodsWe conducted a qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews. Between April 2022 and May 2023, we interviewed a purposeful sample of individuals interested or involved in community hospital research in Canadian community ICUs. We analyzed qualitative data using both conventional content analysis and rapid qualitative analysis. Findings were deductively mapped out using the Ecological Model of Health Behavior. Quantitative survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.ResultsParticipants included 23 health care workers, ten research staff, and five hospital administrators (n = 38) from 20 community hospitals across six provinces in Canada. The main factors associated with community ICU research participation were 1) infrastructure, 2) personnel characteristics, 3) key relationships and connections, and 4) the COVID-19 pandemic.ConclusionIn this qualitative descriptive study, participants identified the physical resources, skills, and relationships required to start and sustain a clinical research program in a Canadian community ICU. Our findings suggest that all levels of the Canadian health care system need to invest in strengthening community hospital research capacity to increase research participation.