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- Title
Óbitos em idosos com infecção adquirida em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva.
- Authors
Lopes de Sousa, Álvaro Francisco; Francisco Luz Nunes Queiroz, Artur Acelino; Braz de Oliveira, Layze; Batista Moura, Luana Kelle; de Andrade, Denise; Watanabe, Evandro; Batista Moura, Maria Eliete
- Abstract
Objective: to evaluate the clinical outcome of elderly patients admitted to intensive care units who had nosocomial infection, correlating the findings with sociodemographic and clinical variables. Method: descriptive research, performed with 308 elderly patients. The collection was made from medical records and covers the years 2012 to 2015. Uni-/bivariate analyses were performed. Results: a statistical association was found between the clinical outcome types and the variables age, length of stay, presence of previous comorbidities, main diagnosis, respiratory and urinary tract infections, use of central venous and indwelling urinary catheters, mechanical ventilation, and tracheostomy. The survival curve showed higher mortality among the elderly from the age of 80 on. Conclusion: the clinical outcome of the elderly who acquire infection in the intensive care unit is influenced by sociodemographic and clinical variables that increase mortality rates.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; HOSPITAL care of older people; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; CRITICAL care medicine; CROSS infection; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; INTENSIVE care units; RESEARCH methodology; EVALUATION of medical care; PROBABILITY theory; PUBLIC hospitals; SCALE analysis (Psychology); STATISTICS; SURVEYS; SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry); COMORBIDITY; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CROSS-sectional method; RETROSPECTIVE studies; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HOSPITAL mortality; KAPLAN-Meier estimator; OLD age; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2017, Vol 70, Issue 4, p766
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0611