Handgrip Strength Predicts Mortality in Older Emergency Patients
A prospective study of 499 older adults in the emergency department found that lower handgrip strength was significantly associated with ...
Tag: In-hospital mortality
In-hospital mortality, hemorrhagic complications, and sociodemographic disparities in acute promyelocytic leukemia: a nationwide analysis of the United States, 2016 to 2023
A nationwide study of United States hospitalizations found that acute promyelocytic leukemia in-hospital mortality did not improve from 2016 to ...
Pandemic Disrupted Paediatric Cancer Care at Sudan’s National Cancer Institute
A retrospective descriptive study at Sudan's National Cancer Institute found a 77 percent decline in paediatric oncology attendance and substantial ...
Updated SOFA-2 Score Matches Original for Predicting Short-Term Sepsis Mortality
In older emergency patients with sepsis, SOFA-2 demonstrated good short-term mortality discrimination but did not improve prognostic performance over the ...
Sustained oxygenation and pressure burdens linked to higher mortality in ventilated ICU patients
A retrospective MIMIC-IV landmark study of 18,285 ventilated adults found that sustained early oxygenation deficits and elevated driving-pressure proxies were ...
Pediatric brain injury guideline adherence in Lebanon shows gaps but no clear survival benefit
A Lebanese retrospective cohort of 120 children with traumatic brain injury found moderate guideline adherence averaging 74.23 percent, with no ...
Pediatric acute heart failure in low- and middle-income countries mapped in scoping review
A scoping review of 33 studies from 16 low- and middle-income countries finds pediatric acute heart failure is severe, congestion-dominated, ...
Hospital care among French centenarians shifts toward emergency admissions and rehabilitation
A nationwide study of French hospital discharge data found that acute care hospitalization among centenarians fell from 53.2 to 45.4 ...
Severe Ionized Hypocalcemia on Admission Signals Higher Death Risk in Major Trauma
A retrospective cohort study of 2,486 major trauma patients in South Korea found that severe admission ionized hypocalcemia below 1.0 ...
Comorbidity Count Misleads as Kidney Injury Death Risk, Study Finds
A large U.S. hospital study found that in-hospital mortality among adults with acute kidney injury falls at moderate comorbidity counts ...
CPPD Linked to Longer Stays and Higher Stroke Care Costs
A retrospective analysis of 1.8 million weighted US stroke admissions found that patients with calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease had longer ...
One in Ten Laparotomy Patients Developed Wound Dehiscence in Southern Ethiopia Cohort
A retrospective cohort of 450 midline laparotomy patients at a Southern Ethiopian hospital found that 10.4 percent developed abdominal wound ...
Low Phosphate on Admission Flags Higher Risks of Kidney Injury and Death in Hospitalized Adults
A retrospective study of 40,884 hospitalized adults found that low admission serum phosphate was independently associated with in-hospital acute kidney ...
Age, not blood inflammation scores, tracked COVID-19 deaths in a Lima hospital study
In 116 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Lima, Peru, age and intubation, not blood-based inflammation indices, were independently associated with in-hospital ...
Inflammatory Blood Scores Linked to Hospital Death Risk in Pulmonary Embolism
A retrospective study of 399 pulmonary embolism patients found that low CALLY index and high CRP-to-albumin ratio values were independently ...
Staphylococcus aureus drives high hospital mortality in infective endocarditis cohort
A 14-year retrospective cohort of 143 adults with definite infective endocarditis at a tertiary center in a middle-income country found ...
Early Antibiotics Fail to Lower Death Risk in Palestinian ICU Sepsis Patients
A retrospective cohort study of 297 ICU patients with sepsis at two Palestinian government hospitals found that early antibiotic administration ...
Prehospital management and hospital outcomes of severely injured patients during routine civilian mass casualty incidents: a 1:4 matched cohort analysis of the TraumaRegister DGU®
A matched analysis of more than 65,000 severely injured patients in the German TraumaRegister DGU found that mass casualty incidents ...
One in three Malaysian bypass patients develops acute kidney injury, study finds
A five-year Malaysian cohort study found that 33.6 percent of coronary artery bypass grafting patients developed acute kidney injury, with ...
Door-to-balloon times vary widely across low- and middle-income countries, review finds
A systematic review of 24 studies in 11 low- and middle-income countries found door-to-balloon times ranging from 34 to 169 ...
