The impact of comorbidities and their stacking on short- and long-term prognosis of patients over 50 with community-acquired pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prognosis of patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) with regards to intensive care unit (ICU) admission, short- and long-term mortality is correlated with patient's comorbidities. For patients hospitalized for CAP, including P-CAP, we assessed the prognostic impact of comorbidities known as at-risk (AR) or high-risk (HR) of pneumococcal CAP (P-CAP), and of the number of combined comorbidities.

Methods

Data on hospitalizations for CAP among the French 50+ population were extracted from the 2014 French Information Systems Medicalization Program (PMSI), an exhaustive national hospital discharge database maintained by the French Technical Agency of Information on Hospitalization (ATIH). Their admission diagnosis, comorbidities (nature, risk

SUBMITTER: Blanc E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442401 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature