Age itself or age-associated comorbidities? A nationwide analysis of outcomes of geriatric trauma.

ABSTRACT: Geriatric trauma patients present physiological challenges to care providers. A nationwide analysis was performed to evaluate the roles of age alone versus age-associated comorbidities in the morbidity and mortality of elderly patients with blunt abdominal trauma (BAT). Patients with BAT registered in the National Trauma Data Bank from 2013 to 2015 were analyzed using propensity score matching (PSM) to evaluate the mortality rate, complication rate, hospital length of stay (LOS), intensive care unit (ICU) LOS and ventilator days between young (age < 65) and elderly (age ≥ 65) patients. An adjusted multivariate logistic regression (MLR) model was also used to evaluate the effect of age itself and age-associated comorbidities on mortality. There were 41,880 patients with BAT during the study

SUBMITTER: Fu CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7839290 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature