Early Detection of Pneumonia with the Help of Dementia in Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the role of dementia in pneumonia among geriatric patients with hip fracture and further develop an algorithm for stratifying risk of developing postoperative pneumonia.

Methods

The algorithm was developed after retrospectively analyzing 1344 hip fracture patients in the National Clinical Research Center for Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation from 1992 to 2012. Twenty-eight variables were analyzed for evaluating the ability to predict postoperative pneumonia. The validation of the algorithm was performed in the MIMIC-III database after enrolling 235 patients.

Results

One thousand five hundred and seventy-nine patients were enrolled, 4.69% patients had postoperative pneumonia in our hospital, and 17.02% suffered pneumonia in the M

SUBMITTER: Tang MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8755876 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature