Key result
In patients discharged on the same day following elective percutaneous coronary intervention, early versus late follow-up showed no significant difference in major adverse cardiac events, though late follow-up was associated with a higher rate of re-hospitalization.
Why the study?
Same-day discharge following elective PCI is routine practice for many cardiologists, but early versus late clinical outcomes needed systematic assessment.
Do early versus late clinical outcomes differ in patients who are discharged on the same day following elective PCI?
Meta-Analysis (n=21,687)
Do early versus late clinical outcomes differ in patients who are discharged on the same day following elective PCI?
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Same-day discharge after elective PCI shows no significant difference in early versus late adverse events, though late re-hospitalization rates are higher, suggesting overall safety but a need for careful late follow-up.
BACKGROUND: Nowadays 57% of the cardiologists based in the United Kingdom and 32% of the cardiologists based in Canada utilize same day discharge (SDD) following elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as a routine practice. In this analysis, we aimed to systematically assess early versus late clinical outcomes following SDD after elective PCI. METHODS: The Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, the Cochrane Central, the Resources from the United States National Library of Medicine (www.ClinicalTrials.gov: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov) and EMBASE were carefully searched for relevant English publications which reported early versus late clinical outcomes in patients who were discharged on the same day following revascularization by PCI. Relevant clinical outcomes which were reported in the original studies were considered as the endpoints in this analysis. Odd ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used to represent the data, and RevMan 5.3 was used as the statistical software. RESULTS: A total number of 21, 687 participants (enrollment time period from the year 1998 to the year 2015) were assigned to this analysis. When early versus late clinical outcomes were compared in patients who were discharged on the same day following elective PCI, major adverse cardiac events (OR: 0.75, 95% CI: 0.31-1.79; P = .51), mortality (OR: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.06-1.06; P = .06), stroke (OR: 1.46, 95% CI: 0.72-2.94; P = .29), arrhythmia (OR: 1.30, 95% CI: 0.64-2.63; P = .47), hematoma (OR: 1.00, 95% CI: 0.60-1.66; P = 1.00) and major bleeding from access site (OR: 1.68, 95% CI: 0.22-12.85; P = .62) were not significantly different. Post-procedural myocardial infarction (OR: 2.01, 95% CI: 0.71-5.70; P = .19) and minor bleeding from access site (OR: 6.61, 95% CI: 0.86-50.66; P = .07) were also similarly manifested. However, re-hospitalization was significantly higher in those patients with late clinical outcomes (OR: 0.18, 95% CI: 0.07-0.44; P = .0002). CONCLUSIONS: In those patients who were discharged from the hospital on the same day following elective PCI, no significant difference was observed in the assessed early versus late clinical outcomes. However, late clinical outcomes resulted in a significantly higher rate of re-hospitalization. Larger studies should confirm this hypothesis.
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Lu et al. (2019) conducted a meta-analysis in Elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (n=21,687). Early follow-up vs. Late follow-up was evaluated on Major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) (OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.31-1.79, p=0.51). In patients discharged on the same day following elective percutaneous coronary intervention, early versus late follow-up showed no significant difference in major adverse cardiac events, though late follow-up was associated with a higher rate of re-hospitalization.
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