Impact of frailty on 30-day and 1-year mortality in hospitalised elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study evaluates the impact of frailty, which is a state of increased vulnerability to stressors, on 30-day and 1-year mortality among elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The main hypothesis is that frailty is an independent predictor of prognosis in elderly CAP patients.

Design

Prospective, observational, follow-up cohort study.

Setting

A 2000-bed tertiary care hospital in Beijing, China.

Participants

Consecutive CAP patients aged ≥65 years admitted to the geriatric department of our hospital between September 2017 and February 2019.

Main outcome measures

The primary outcomes were all-cause mortality at 30 days and 1 year after hospital admission. The impact of frailty (defined by frailty phenotype) on 30-day and 1-y

SUBMITTER: Luo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7783614 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature