Hospital Complications and Frailty in Mexican Older Adults: An Emergency Care Cohort Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: To describe the association of frailty level on admittance to the Emergency Department (ED) with various hospital complications including delirium, low phase angle, and low handgrip strength. Design: Prospective cohort. Setting: ED rooms of two public general hospitals in Mexico City. Participants: A total of 548 persons 60 years or older who were admitted to the ED and who were alive during follow-up testing at home were included. Measurements: A 32-item frailty index (FI) was measured on admission to the ED. Outcome measures included delirium, phase angle, and hand grip strength measured during different stages of the hospitalization (i.e., from admission to the ED through to follow-up at home). Results: From this final sample, mean a

SUBMITTER: Perez-Zepeda MU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7550456 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature