Sandra Cuerpo, Sira Aguiló, María Florencia Poblete-Palacios, Guillermo Burillo-Putze, Aitor Alquézar-Arbé, Javier Jacob, Cesáreo Fernández, Pere Llorens, Francisco Javier Montero-Pérez, Cristina Iglesias-Frax, Eva Quero-Motto, Carmen Escudero-Sánchez, Eduard Anton Poch-Ferrer, Jeong-Uh Hong-Cho, Beatriz Casado-Ramón, Sara Gayoso-Martín, Goretti Sánchez-Sindín, María Esther Fernández-Álvarez, Margarita Puiggali-Ballard, Olga Trejo, Lluís Llauger, Lucía Garrido-Acosta, Sara Calle-Fernández, Laura Molina, María Martínez-Juan, Gema Gómez-García, Pedro Rivas Del Valle, María Luisa López-Grima, Pere Rull-Bertrán, Juan González Del Castillo, Òscar Miró
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the incidence of pneumonia diagnosis in elderly patients in Spanish emergency departments (ED), need for hospitalization, adverse events and predictive capacity of biomarkers commonly used in the ED. METHODS: Patients ≥65 years with pneumonia seen in 52 Spanish EDs were included. We recorded in-hospitaland 30-day mortality as adverse events, as well as intensive care unit (ICU) admission among hospitalizedpatients. Association of 10 predefined variables with adverse events was calculated and expressed as odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI), as well as predictive capacity of 5 commonly used biomarkers in the ED (leukocytes, hemoglobin, C-reactive protein, glucose, creatinine) was investigated using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC)...
February 22, 2024: Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica