Association Between Hospital Volume and 30-Day Readmissions After Transcatheter Mitral Valve Edge- to-Edge Repair

Data on the association between hospital procedural volume and 30-day readmissions after mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (mTEER) are limited. We used the 2019 Nationwide Readmissions Database to identify hospitals that performed at least 5 mTEERs. Hospitals were categorized based on tertiles of annual mTEER volume as low -volume (5 to 13), medium-volume (14 to 28), and high-volume (29 to 171). Multivariable hierarchical logistic regression models and restricted cubic spline analyses were used to examine the association between hospital mTEER volume and 30-day readmissions. Median (interquartile range) annual hospital mTEER volume was 20 (11.5 to 34). Of 234 hospitals included in the study, 77 (32.9%), 77 (32.9%), and 80 (34.2%) were categorized as low-volume, medium-volume, and high-volume. Of 5,574 index mTEER procedures included in this study, 634 (11.4%), 1,353 (24.3%), and 3,587 (64.3%) were performed at low-volume, medium-volume, and high-volume centers, respectively. In the overall study cohort, rates of 30-day all-cause readmissions after mTEER were 13.2%. In multivariable analyses, there was no significant association between hospital mTEER volume (as a cate-gorical variable) and 30-day all-cause or cause-specific (cardiac, non-cardiac, heart fail-ure) readmissions. Similarly, no significant relation was observed between hospital mTEER volume as a continuous variable and 30-day all-cause or cause-specific readmis-sions in restricted cubic spline analysis. In conclusion, in a nationally representative sam-ple of 234 hospitals with >5,500 mTEER procedures, we found no association between annual hospital mTEER volume and 30-day all-cause or cause-specific readmissions. & COPY; 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (Am J Cardiol 2023;203:149-156)