Frailty, malnutrition, healthcare utilization, and mortality in patients with dementia and cognitive impairment obtained from hospital administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With aging populations, the prevalence of dementia, frailty and malnutrition will increase. The aim of this study is twofold (a) to determine the demographic data, including frailty and malnutrition prevalence in older patients with diagnosis of dementia and/or cognitive impairment and (b) to determine its impact on outcomes such as length of stay (LOS), readmission and mortality stratified by frailty status.

Methods

Retrospective single-center cohort study conducted using hospital database on older patients ≥65 yrs. admitted to a tertiary hospital between March 2022 and Dec 2023 and discharged with either primary or secondary diagnosis of dementia or cognitive impairment. Data on age, gender, ethnicity, comorbidities, discharge diagnoses, Hospital Frailty Risk

SUBMITTER: Merchant RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11897001 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature