Relationship between community walking ability and in-hospital mortality in elderly patients with sepsis: a single-center retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine the association of a simple frailty assessment, Life Space (LS), with in-hospital mortality in elderly patients with sepsis.

Methods

We used data from a single hospital between 2014 and 2017. We included elderly patients (age ≥ 65 years) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with sepsis, as defined by sepsis-3 criteria. Frailty assessment was based on a patient's ability to independently go out of the house before the ICU admission. We termed this dichotomous score as Life Space. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality. Logistic regression was used to investigate the association of LS with each outcome after adjusting for age, sex, and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score.

Results

Of the 335 participants included in the final analysis

SUBMITTER: Ueno R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6528228 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature