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SUBMITTER: Hope AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5831479 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hope Aluko A AA Adeoye Oriade O Chuang Elizabeth H EH Hsieh S J SJ Gershengorn Hayley B HB Gong Michelle N MN
Journal of critical care 20171111
<h4>Purpose</h4>We aimed to estimate the independent effect of pre-hospital frailty (PHF) on hospital mortality and prolonged hospital length of stay (pLOS) while adjusting for other patient level factors.<h4>Methods</h4>This is a cohort study of hospitalized adults with acute respiratory failure (ARF) who required invasive mechanical ventilation for ≥24h in 2013. We used inpatient/outpatient claims from a list of diagnoses from the year before index hospital admission to define PHF. Differences ...[more]