Mortality Among Hospitalized Individuals With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the US Between 2006 and 2016.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate time trends in mortality for hospitalized adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared to the general hospitalized population (GHP), and to identify factors associated with increased risk of death among hospitalized SLE patients.

Methods

We used the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample to estimate all-cause mortality for adults discharged from community hospitals in the US between 2006 and 2016. Poisson regression models were used to estimate the risk of in-hospital death among all patients, including demographic characteristics, socioeconomic factors, comorbidity score, hospital region, SLE diagnosis, and race/ethnicity as covariates.

Results

Among 340,467,049 hospitalizations analyzed, 1,903,279 had a discharge diagnosis of SLE. In

SUBMITTER: Anastasiou C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7744369 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature