The Impact of Comorbid Dementia and Diabetes Mellitus on Hospital Patients' Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Previous reviews have demonstrated that dementia and diabetes mellitus, separately, can worsen the hospital outcomes of patients. Unfortunately, there are no systematic evaluations regarding the hospital outcomes of patients with dementia and diabetes mellitus as a comorbidity. Therefore, our review aimed to determine any differences in hospital length of stay, hospital mortality, and hospital readmission between patients with the comorbidity and patients without.

Methods

Searches were conducted of Medline, CINHAL, EMBASE, PsychINFO, Web of Science and Google Scholar for original studies. All studies were quality assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute critical appraisal tools. Where possible, studies were pooled in a meta-analysis to generate odds ratios (OR

SUBMITTER: Gadsby-Davis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11759732 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature