IMPORTANCE: Nearly every US acute care hospital reports publicly on adherence to recommended processes of care for patients hospitalized with pneumonia. However, it remains uncertain how much performance of these process measures has improved over time or whether performance is associated with superior ...
Elderly individuals are admitted to ICU only if a high likelihood of survival is expected a priori. Consequently, our results can only be extrapolated to health systems with equivalent elderly triage processes. In particular, this study is specific to the French healthcare setting and may not be...
The function of these cells declines with age, which may offer an explanation for the increased incidence of gastrointestinal and skin infections, as well as an increase in bacterial and viral pneumonias observed in the elderly. Immunosenescence of the innate immune system may also contribute to ...
When patients had two or more causes of ARF, they required treatment for both (for example, diuresis and antibiotics for a patient with congestive heart failure and acute pneumonia) to be considered appropriate. At the time of the study, non-invasive ventilation or continuous positive airway ...
We performed iterations of Cox regression models with survival days from discharge as the dependent variable and censored by one-year mortality from discharge, gradually reducing the number of independent predictors. We began with all candidate predictors (except procedures and medications because these ...
Calcium Intake and Survival after Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis. Clin Cancer Res. 2019;25(6):1980–8. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.Ccr-18-2965. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Loughnan R, Ahern J, Tompkins C, et al. Association of Genetic Variant Linked to Hemochromatosis With Brain...
Although a new study shows that optimal emergency care for acute coronary syndrome in the very elderly significantly increases their chances of survival—just as it does in younger patients—it also reveals that optimal care for acute coronary syndrome is often withheld from nonagenarians and ...
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Careful hand feeding should be offered because hand feeding has been shown to be as good as tube feeding for the outcomes of death, aspiration pneumonia, functional status, and comfort. Moreover, tube feeding is associated with agitation, greater use of physical and chemical restraints, health...
The most common complications were pancreatic fistula (9%) and pneumonia (7.2%). The incidence of pancreatic fistula was similar between groups A and B (14% vs 13.8%; P = .99). In 14 patients, surgical complications were approached conservatively with aggressive medical therapy (ie, ...