Hospital-Associated Complications of Older People: A Proposed Multicomponent Outcome for Acute Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To propose a new multicomponent measure of hospital-associated complications of older people (HAC-OP) and evaluate its validity in a large hospital sample.

Design

Observational study using baseline (pre-intervention) data from the Collaboration for Hospitalised Elders Reducing the Impact of Stays in Hospital cluster randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Acute medical and surgical wards in 4 hospitals in Queensland, Australia.

Participants

Individuals aged 65 and older (mean age 76, 48% female) with a hospital stay of 72 hours or longer (N=434).

Measurements

We developed a multicomponent measure including 5 well-recognized hospital-associated complications of older people: hospital-associated delirium, functional decline, incontinence, falls, an

SUBMITTER: Mudge AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6367036 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature