Smith Stephanie F, Gollop Nicholas D, Uppal Hardeep, Chandran Suresh, Potluri Rahul
School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK.
Department of Medicine , Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital , Norwich , UK.
Heart Asia. 2014 Jan 23;6(1):1-2. doi: 10.1136/heartasia-2013-010485. eCollection 2014.
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common diagnosis in UK hospitals and confers a significant hospital stay (LOS). There is very little evidence concerning ethnic variations on LOS in patients with PE. We sought to investigate ethnic variations in LOS in a large sample of 3440 patients with PE from 2000 to 2013 across seven hospitals in the north west of UK. We found that South Asian patients have significantly lower LOS compared with Caucasian patients. We discuss possible reasons for, and implications of, this finding.
肺栓塞（PE）在英国医院是一种常见诊断，且会导致较长的住院时间（LOS）。关于肺栓塞患者住院时间的种族差异，几乎没有相关证据。我们试图对2000年至2013年英国西北部七家医院的3440例肺栓塞患者的大样本进行研究，以调查住院时间的种族差异。我们发现，与白种人患者相比，南亚患者的住院时间明显更短。我们讨论了这一发现的可能原因及其影响。
