Predicting Inpatient Mortality Among Encephalitis Patients: A Novel Admission Risk Score.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying underlying commonalities among all-cause encephalitis cases can be extraordinarily useful in predicting meaningful risk factors associated with inpatient mortality.

Methods

A retrospective cohort of patients with encephalitis was derived from a clinical chart review of adult patients (age ≥18 years) across 16 different hospitals in Houston, Texas, between January 2005 and July 2015. Clinical features at admission were assessed for their correlation with inpatient mortality and used to derive a final risk score prediction tool.

Results

The study included a total of 273 adult patients with all-cause encephalitis, 27 (9.9%) of whom died during hospitalization. A limited number of clinical features were substantially different between patients who s

SUBMITTER: Hansen MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7651585 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature