Impact of Frailty on Inpatient Mortality and Resource Utilization for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension.

ABSTRACT: Background  Frailty has been associated with inferior outcomes in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). There is a lack of national data to assess if hospital frailty risk score (HFRS) is associated with worse inpatient outcomes in PPH. Methods  Our retrospective study used the Nationwide Readmission Database (NRD). First, we extracted all cases older than 18 years who were discharged with a principal diagnosis of PPH between January and November 2016 to 2019 to allow for a 30-day follow-up. Appropriate survey and domain analyses were applied to obtain national estimates using SAS 9.4. Results  We identified 4,555 cases. HFRS <5 was present in 56% ( n  = 2,555) of the cohort. Patients with an intermediate-to-high frailty risk score (HFRS ≥5) were o

SUBMITTER: Rauf R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11896733 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature