Frailty and length of stay in older adults with blunt injury in a national multicentre prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients suffering moderate or severe injury after low falls have higher readmission and long-term mortality rates compared to patients injured by high-velocity mechanisms such as motor vehicle accidents. We hypothesize that this is due to higher pre-injury frailty in low-fall patients, and present baseline patient and frailty demographics of a prospective cohort of moderate and severely injured older patients. Our second hypothesis was that frailty was associated with longer length of stay (LOS) at index admission.

Methods

This is a prospective, nation-wide, multi-center cohort study of Singaporean residents aged ≥55 years admitted for ≥48 hours after blunt injury with an injury severity score or new injury severity score ≥10, or an Organ Injury Scale ≥3, in publ

SUBMITTER: Tan TXZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8087011 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature