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BACKGROUND: Poststroke depression (PSD) is a treatable and common complication of stroke that is underdiagnosed and undertreated in minority populations. We compared outcomes of Black and White patients with PSD in the United States to assess whether race is independently associated with the risk of recurrent stroke and mortality. METHODS: We used deidentified Medicare data from inpatient, outpatient, and subacute nursing facilities for Black and White US patients from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019, to perform this retrospective cohort analysis. International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes were used to identify patients diagnosed with depression within 6 months of index stroke with no depression diagnosis 1-year preceding index stroke. We performed an unadjusted Kaplan-Meier analysis of the cumulative risk of recurrent stroke up to 3 years after index acute ischemic stroke admission and all-cause mortality following acute ischemic stroke stratified by Black and White race. We performed adjusted and reduced Cox regression to calculate hazard ratios for the main predictor of race (Black versus White), for recurrent stroke and all-cause mortality, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, characteristics of the hospitalization, and acute stroke interventions. RESULTS: Of 474â 770 Medicare patients admitted with acute index stroke, 443â 486 were categorized as either Black or White race and 35â 604 fulfilled our criteria for PSD. Within the PSD cohort, 25â 451 (71.5%) had no death or recurrent stroke within 6 months and 5592 (15.7%) had no death or readmission of any cause within 6 months. Black patients with PSD had a persistently elevated cumulative risk of recurrent stroke compared with White patients with PSD up to 3 years following acute ischemic stroke (log-rank P=0.0011). In our reduced multivariable model, Black patients had a 19.8% (hazard ratio, 1.198 [95% CI, 1.022-1.405]; P=0.0259) greater risk of recurrent stroke than White patients. The unadjusted cumulative risk of all-cause mortality was higher in this cohort of older White patients with PSD compared with Black patients; however, this difference disappeared with adjustment for age and other cofactors. CONCLUSIONS: Black patients with PSD face a persistently elevated risk of recurrent stroke compared with White patients but a similar risk of all-cause mortality. Our findings support that black race is an independent predictor of recurrent stroke in patients with PSD and highlight the need to address social determinants of health and systemic racism that impact poststroke outcomes among racial minorities.
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BACKGROUND: Acute ischemic stroke with isolated posterior cerebral artery occlusion (iPCAO) lacks management evidence from randomized trials. We aimed to evaluate whether the association between endovascular treatment (EVT) and outcomes in iPCAO acute ischemic stroke is modified by initial stroke severity (baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale [NIHSS]) and arterial occlusion site. METHODS: Based on the multicenter, retrospective, case-control study of consecutive iPCAO acute ischemic stroke patients (PLATO study [Posterior Cerebral Artery Occlusion Stroke]), we assessed the heterogeneity of EVT outcomes compared with medical management (MM) for iPCAO, according to baseline NIHSS score (≤6 versus >6) and occlusion site (P1 versus P2), using multivariable regression modeling with interaction terms. The primary outcome was the favorable shift of 3-month modified Rankin Scale (mRS). Secondary outcomes included excellent outcome (mRS score 0-1), functional independence (mRS score 0-2), symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, and mortality. RESULTS: From 1344 patients assessed for eligibility, 1059 were included (median age, 74 years; 43.7% women; 41.3% had intravenous thrombolysis): 364 receiving EVT and 695 receiving MM. Baseline stroke severity did not modify the association of EVT with 3-month mRS distribution (Pinteraction=0.312) but did with functional independence (Pinteraction=0.010), with a similar trend on excellent outcome (Pinteraction=0.069). EVT was associated with more favorable outcomes than MM in patients with baseline NIHSS score >6 (mRS score 0-1, 30.6% versus 17.7%; adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.01 [95% CI, 1.22-3.31]; mRS score 0 to 2, 46.1% versus 31.9%; aOR, 1.64 [95% CI, 1.08-2.51]) but not in those with NIHSS score ≤6 (mRS score 0-1, 43.8% versus 46.3%; aOR, 0.90 [95% CI, 0.49-1.64]; mRS score 0-2, 65.3% versus 74.3%; aOR, 0.55 [95% CI, 0.30-1.0]). EVT was associated with more symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage regardless of baseline NIHSS score (Pinteraction=0.467), while the mortality increase was more pronounced in patients with NIHSS score ≤6 (Pinteraction=0.044; NIHSS score ≤6: aOR, 7.95 [95% CI, 3.11-20.28]; NIHSS score >6: aOR, 1.98 [95% CI, 1.08-3.65]). Arterial occlusion site did not modify the association of EVT with outcomes compared with MM. CONCLUSIONS: Baseline clinical stroke severity, rather than the occlusion site, may be an important modifier of the association between EVT and outcomes in iPCAO. Only severely affected patients with iPCAO (NIHSS score >6) had more favorable disability outcomes with EVT than MM, despite increased mortality and symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage.
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Procedimentos Endovasculares , Infarto da Artéria Cerebral Posterior , Humanos , Feminino , Masculino , Idoso , Procedimentos Endovasculares/métodos , Estudos Retrospectivos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Infarto da Artéria Cerebral Posterior/diagnóstico por imagem , Resultado do Tratamento , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , AVC Isquêmico/terapia , Terapia Trombolítica/métodos , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/terapiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity (MM) is generally defined as the presence of 2 or more chronic diseases in the same patient and seems to be frequently associated with frailty and poor quality of life. However, the complex interplay between MM and functional status in hospitalized older patients has not been fully elucidated so far. Here, we implemented a 2-step approach, combining cluster analysis and association rule mining to explore how patterns of MM and disease associations change as a function of disability. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included 3366 hospitalized older patients discharged from acute care units of Ancona and Cosenza sites of Italian National Institute on Aging (INRCA-IRCCS) between 2011 and 2017. Cluster analysis and association rule mining (ARM) were used to explore patterns of MM and disease associations in the whole population and after stratifying by dependency in activities of daily living (ADL) at discharge. Sensitivity analyses in men and women were conducted to test for robustness of study findings. RESULTS: Out of 3366 included patients, 78% were multimorbid. According to functional status, 22.2% of patients had no disability in ADL (functionally independent group), 22.7% had 1 ADL dependency (mildly dependent group), and 57.4% 2 or more ADL impaired (moderately-severely dependent group). Two main MM clusters were identified in the whole general population and in single ADL groups. ARM revealed interesting within-cluster disease associations, characterized by high lift and confidence. Specifically, in the functionally independent group, the most significant ones involved atrial fibrillation (AF)-anemia and chronic kidney disease (CKD) (lift = 2.32), followed by coronary artery disease (CAD)-AF and heart failure (HF) (lift = 2.29); in patients with moderate-severe ADL disability, the most significant ARM involved CAD-HF and AF (lift = 1.97), thyroid dysfunction and AF (lift = 1.75), cerebrovascular disease (CVD)-CAD and AF (lift = 1.55), and hypertension-anemia and CKD (lift = 1.43). CONCLUSIONS: Hospitalized older patients have high rates of MM and functional impairment. Combining cluster analysis to ARM may assist physicians in discovering unexpected disease associations in patients with different ADL status. This could be relevant in the view of individuating personalized diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, according to the modern principles of precision medicine.
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Atividades Cotidianas , Hospitalização , Multimorbidade , Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Idoso , Análise por Conglomerados , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Estado Funcional , Mineração de Dados , Estudos RetrospectivosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Studies suggest that ambulation after major lower extremity amputation (LEA) is low and mortality after LEA is high. Successful prosthetic fitting after LEA has a significant quality of life benefit; however, it is unclear if there are benefits in post-LEA mortality. Our objective was to examine a contemporary cohort of patients who underwent LEA and determine if there is an association between fitting for a prosthetic and mortality. METHODS: We reviewed all patients who underwent LEA between 2015 and 2022 at two academic health care systems in a large metropolitan city. The exposure of interest was prosthetic fitting after LEA. The primary outcomes were mortality within 1 and 3 years of follow-up. Ambulation after LEA was defined as being ambulatory with or without an assistive device. Patients with prior LEA were excluded. Extended Cox models with time-dependent exposure were used to evaluate the association between prosthetic fitting and mortality at 1 and 3 years of follow-up. RESULTS: Among 702 patients who underwent LEA, the mean (SD) age was 64.3 (12.6) years and 329 (46.6%) were fitted for prosthetic. The study population was mostly male (n = 488, 69.5%), predominantly non-Hispanic Black (n = 410, 58.4%), and nearly one-fifth were non-ambulatory before LEA (n = 139 [19.8%]). Of note, 14.3% of all subjects who were nonambulatory at some point after LEA, and 28.5% of patients not ambulatory preoperatively were eventually ambulatory after LEA. The rate of death among those fitted for a prosthetic was 12.0/100 person-years at 1 year and 5.8/100 person-years at 3 years of follow-up; among those not fitted for a prosthetic, the rate of death was 55.7/100 person-years and 50.7/100 person-years at 1 and 3 years of follow-up, respectively. After adjusting for several sociodemographic data points, comorbidities, pre- or post- coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic timeframe, and procedural factors, prosthetic fitting is associated with decreased likelihood of mortality within 1 year of follow-up (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.24; 95% confidence interval, 0.14-0.40) as well as within 3 years (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.40; 95% confidence interval, 0.29-0.55). CONCLUSIONS: Prosthetic fitting is associated with improved survival, and preoperative functional status does not always predict postoperative functional status. Characterizing patient, surgical, and rehabilitation factors associated with receipt of prosthetic after LEA may improve long-term survival in these patients. Process measures employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, such as prosthetic department evaluation of all amputees, may represent a best practice.
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Amputação Cirúrgica , Membros Artificiais , Ajuste de Prótese , Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Amputação Cirúrgica/mortalidade , Idoso , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fatores de Risco , Extremidade Inferior/irrigação sanguínea , Extremidade Inferior/cirurgia , Fatores de Tempo , Amputados/reabilitação , COVID-19/mortalidade , Medição de Risco , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Lung retransplantation is offered to select patients with chronic allograft dysfunction. Given the increased risk of morbidity and mortality conferred by retransplantation, post-transplant function should be considered in the decision of who and when to list. The aim of this study is to identify predictors of post-operative disability in patients undergoing lung retransplantation. METHODS: Data were collected from the UNOS national dataset and included all patients who underwent lung retransplant from May 2005-March 2023. Pre- and post-operative function was reported by the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) and patients were stratified based on their needs. Cumulative link mixed effects models identified associations between pre-transplant variables and post-transplant function. RESULTS: A total of 1275 lung retransplant patients were included. After adjusting for between-group differences, pre-operative functional status was predictive of post-transplant function; patients requiring Total Assistance ( n = 740) were 74% more likely than No/Some Assistance patients (n = 535) to require more assistance in follow-up (OR 1.74, 95% CI 1.13-2.68, p = .012). Estimated one year survival of Total Assistance patients is lower than No/Some Assistance Recipients (72% vs. 82%, CI 69%-75%; 79%-86%) but similar to overall re-transplant survival (76%, CI 74%-79%). CONCLUSION: Both survival and regain of function in patients requiring Total Assistance prior to retransplant may be higher than previously reported. Pre-operative functional status is predictive of post-operative function and should weigh in the selection, timing and post-operative care of patients considered for lung retransplantation.
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Transplante de Pulmão , Pulmão , Humanos , Transplante de Pulmão/efeitos adversos , Transplante Homólogo , Reoperação , Estudos RetrospectivosRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Previous studies showed that depression acts as an independent factor in functional recovery after stroke. In a prospective cohort of patients admitted to intensive inpatient rehabilitation after a stroke, we aimed to test depression as a moderator of the relationship between the functional level at admission and the effectiveness of rehabilitation at discharge. METHODS: All patients admitted to within 30 days from an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke to 4 intensive rehabilitation units were prospectively screened for eligibility to a multicenter prospective observational study. Enrolled patients underwent an evidence-based rehabilitation pathway. We used clinical data collected at admission (T0) and discharge (T1). The outcome was the effectiveness of recovery at T1 on the modified Barthel Index (proportion of achieved over potential functional improvement). Moderation analysis was performed by using the PROCESS macro for SPSS using the bootstrapping procedure. RESULTS: Of 278 evaluated patients, 234 were eligible and consented to enrolment; 81 patients were able to answer to the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and were included in this analysis. The relationship between the functional status at admission and rehabilitation effectiveness was significant only in persons with fewer depressive symptoms; depression (HADS cut-off score: 5.9) moderated this relationship (P = .047), independent from age and neurological impairment. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that depression moderates between the functional status at admission and the functional recovery after post-stroke rehabilitation. This approach facilitates the identification of subgroups of individuals who may respond differently to stroke rehabilitation based on depression.
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Reabilitação do Acidente Vascular Cerebral , Acidente Vascular Cerebral , Humanos , Depressão , Estudos Prospectivos , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/complicações , Hospitalização , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The most prevalent entrapment neuropathy is carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Although nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are frequently prescribed for musculoskeletal disorders, oral NSAIDs do not provide any additional benefits for CTS. Nevertheless, the use of NSAID phonophoresis has shown significant improvement, possibly due to increased concentration in the target tissue. The effects of intracarpal injection of NSAIDs on CTS have not been studied. OBJECTIVE: We conducted a controlled trial to compare the efficacy of ketorolac and triamcinolone in treating CTS. METHODS: Mild to moderate CTS patients were randomly assigned to receive either a local injection of 30 mg ketorolac or 40 mg triamcinolone. Patients were evaluated using visual analog scale (VAS) for pain, severity, function, electrodiagnostic findings, patient satisfaction, and any complications at the injection site, at baseline and 12 weeks after the procedures. RESULTS: Fifty patients participated, and 43 completed the study. Both groups showed significant improvement in the VAS, severity, function, and electrodiagnostic scores at 3 months compared with the baseline. A comparison of the groups showed significant differences in VAS, severity, and function, with the improvement being significantly higher in the triamcinolone group. CONCLUSION AND RELEVANCE: The present study showed that injection of triamcinolone or ketorolac into the carpal tunnel relieved pain, increased function, and improved electrodiagnostic findings in patients with mild to moderate CTS. It also showed that triamcinolone was superior to ketorolac in terms of analgesic effect and resulted in greater improvement in symptom severity and function.
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Síndrome do Túnel Carpal , Triancinolona , Humanos , Triancinolona/efeitos adversos , Cetorolaco/efeitos adversos , Síndrome do Túnel Carpal/tratamento farmacológico , Anti-Inflamatórios não Esteroides/efeitos adversos , Dor/tratamento farmacológico , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
PURPOSEOF REVIEW: This review examines the literature on palliative rehabilitation for patients with advanced cancer, focusing on definitions, structures, processes, and outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: Palliative cancer rehabilitation targets comfort and functional improvement for patients with limited rehabilitation potential across various settings. The palliative cancer rehabilitation team, typically led by a physician, coordinates symptom management and referrals to rehabilitation and other allied healthcare professionals as needed. The outcomes of palliative cancer rehabilitation varied widely by goals, settings, and interventions. Studies in hospice settings generally reported improved symptom control; inpatient rehabilitation had mixed functional outcomes; and outpatient palliative rehabilitation may contribute to enhanced functional and symptom outcomes, especially among patients with higher baseline function. Palliative cancer rehabilitation emphasizes a collaborative approach that integrates palliative care with rehabilitation interventions, aiming to enhance quality of life and address diverse patient needs. Further research and standardization are necessary to realize its full potential.
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INTRODUCTION: Patients' functional status assesses their independence in performing activities of daily living, including basic ADLs (bADL), and more complex instrumental activities (iADL). Existing studies have discovered that patients' functional status is a strong predictor of health outcomes, particularly in older adults. Depite their usefulness, much of the functional status information is stored in electronic health records (EHRs) in either semi-structured or free text formats. This indicates the pressing need to leverage computational approaches such as natural language processing (NLP) to accelerate the curation of functional status information. In this study, we introduced FedFSA, a hybrid and federated NLP framework designed to extract functional status information from EHRs across multiple healthcare institutions. METHODS: FedFSA consists of four major components: 1) individual sites (clients) with their private local data, 2) a rule-based information extraction (IE) framework for ADL extraction, 3) a BERT model for functional status impairment classification, and 4) a concept normalizer. The framework was implemented using the OHNLP Backbone for rule-based IE and open-source Flower and PyTorch library for federated BERT components. For gold standard data generation, we carried out corpus annotation to identify functional status-related expressions based on ICF definitions. Four healthcare institutions were included in the study. To assess FedFSA, we evaluated the performance of category- and institution-specific ADL extraction across different experimental designs. RESULTS: ADL extraction performance ranges from an F1-score of 0.907 to 0.986 for bADL and 0.825 to 0.951 for iADL across the four healthcare sites. The performance for ADL extraction with impairment ranges from an F1-score of 0.722 to 0.954 for bADL and 0.674 to 0.813 for iADL across four healthcare sites. For category-specific ADL extraction, laundry and transferring yielded relatively high performance, while dressing, medication, bathing, and continence achieved moderate-high performance. Conversely, food preparation and toileting showed low performance. CONCLUSION: NLP performance varied across ADL categories and healthcare sites. Federated learning using a FedFSA framework performed higher than non-federated learning for impaired ADL extraction at all healthcare sites. Our study demonstrated the potential of the federated learning framework in functional status extraction and impairment classification in EHRs, exemplifying the importance of a large-scale, multi-institutional collaborative development effort.
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Atividades Cotidianas , Estado Funcional , Humanos , Idoso , Aprendizagem , Armazenamento e Recuperação da Informação , Processamento de Linguagem NaturalRESUMO
Objectives: To determine whether low functional capacity (FC) prior to intensive care unit (ICU) admission due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) might be associated with worse clinical outcomes. To monitor FC until discharge from the ICU. To identify associations between physical outcomes and decreased FC at discharge from the ICU. Design: Prospective observational study conducted from March to August 2021. Setting: ICU for adult patients with COVID-19. Participants: Adults (≥18 years) with COVID-19. Interventions: Not applicable. Main outcome measures: Clinical and demographic data were obtained from medical records. At ICU admission, evaluation was made of FC using the Barthel index (BI), and of the level of mobility using the ICU mobility scale. At ICU discharge, FC and mobility level were reassessed, and muscle strength was measured using the Medical Research Council (MRC) scale and the handgrip test. Results: The study was performed with 108 individuals. At the initial assessment, 73.1% of the patients were functionally independent. Length of hospital stay (odds ratio [OR] = 1.05; 95%confidence interval [CI] = 1.00-1.10) and death (OR = 5.27; 95%CI = 1.37-20.28) were related to functional status prior to ICU admission. Between ICU admission and discharge, the BI evaluation indicated a functional decline of 22.5 points. Low mobility level (P = .003) and low muscle strength assessed by the MRC scale (P < .001), measured at ICU discharge, were associated with a greater decrease of FC during the ICU stay. Conclusions: Patients with COVID-19 who were functionally dependent prior to ICU admission presented worse clinical outcomes, with low functional status being associated with longer hospitalization and higher mortality. However, irrespective of the initial functionality status, the surviving individuals suffered from functional decline at ICU discharge. Greater functional decline during the ICU stay was associated with lower muscle strength and lower mobility level at ICU discharge.
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COVID-19 , Estado Funcional , Adulto , Humanos , Força da Mão , COVID-19/terapia , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva , HospitalizaçãoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and frailty are associated with functional decline in older population. OBJECTIVE: To explore the individual response to a multimodal intervention on functional performance. DESIGN: A cluster-randomised multicentre clinical trial. SETTING: Outpatients in hospital or primary care. SUBJECTS: 843 (77.83 years, 50.65% men) prefrail and frail individuals ≥70 years with T2DM. METHODS: Participants were allocated to usual care group (UCG) or a multicomponent intervention group (IG): 16-week progressive resistance training, seven nutritional and diabetological educational sessions and achievement of glycated haemoglobin (7-8%) and blood pressure (<150 mmHg) targets. Functional performance was assessed with the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) at 1 year. We used multivariate binomial and multinomial logistic regression models to explore the effect of the IG, and adherence on the outcomes studied, in several adjusted models. RESULTS: 53.7% in the IG versus 38.0% in the UCG improved by at least 1 point in their SPPB score [OR (95% CI): 2.07 (1.43, 2.98), P value <0.001]. Age, SPPB score and number of frailty criteria met decreased the probability of improving the SPPB score. Factors associated with worsening were pertaining to IG (decreased), age, SPPB score and the number of frailty criteria (increased). An adherence ≥84% was needed to achieve benefits, reaching the peak in the probability of improving SPPB when this was ≥85% [OR(95%CI): 2.38 (1.29, 4.79), P value 0.014]. CONCLUSIONS: Factors predicting the likelihood of improvement in a multimodal programme in pre-frail and frail older adults with diabetes are age, basal SPPB score, the number of frailty criteria and adherence.
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Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 , Fragilidade , Masculino , Idoso , Humanos , Feminino , Idoso Fragilizado , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/diagnóstico , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/terapia , Fragilidade/diagnóstico , Fragilidade/terapia , Pressão Sanguínea , EscolaridadeRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Functional status is one of the surrogates of advanced age, an established risk factor for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). We aimed to investigate the usefulness of functional status in the clinical management of CDI. METHODS: We enrolled all hospitalized adult patients receiving antibiotics from a retrospective hospital-based cohort in Japan between 2016 and 2020. Using the Barthel index (BI), which is an objective scale of functional status, we investigated the association of BI with developing CDI and its impact on inhospital mortality in patients with CDI. RESULTS: We enrolled 17,131 patients with 100 cases of CDI. Multivariable analysis revealed that lower BI (≤25) was an independent risk factor for developing CDI (adjusted odds ratio, 4.11; 95% confidence interval, 2.62-6.46). Furthermore, a combination of BI and Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) showed an adjusted odds ratio of 36.40 (95% confidence interval, 17.30-76.60) in the highest risk group. A high-risk group according to the combination of BI and CCI was estimated to have significantly higher inhospital mortality in patients with CDI using the Kaplan-Meier method (p = 0.017). A combination of lower BI and higher CCI was an independent predictor of inhospital mortality even in the multivariable Cox regression model (adjusted hazard ratio, 3.00; 95% confidence interval, 1.01-8.88). CONCLUSIONS: Assessment of functional status, especially combined with comorbidities, was significantly associated with developing CDI and may also be useful in predicting inhospital mortality.
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Antibacterianos , Infecções por Clostridium , Adulto , Humanos , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Mortalidade Hospitalar , Estudos Retrospectivos , Estado Funcional , Infecções por Clostridium/epidemiologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Pre-liver transplant (LT) functional status is an important determinant of prognosis post LT. There is insufficient data on how functional status affects outcomes of transplant recipients based on the specific etiology of liver disease. We stratified LT recipients by etiology of liver disease to evaluate the effects of functional status on post-LT prognosis in each subgroup. METHODS: 2005-2019 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Standard Transplant Analysis and Research (STAR) was used to select patients with liver transplant. A total of 14,290 patients were included in the analysis. These patients were stratified by functional status according to Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) score: no assistance, some assistance, or total assistance. They were then further divided into six diagnosis categories: metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), hereditary disorders, hepatitis C, hepatitis B, autoimmune disease (AID), and alcoholic liver disease (ALD). Primary endpoints included all-cause mortality and graft failure, while secondary endpoints included organ-specific causes of death. Those under the age of 18 and those with non-whole liver or prior liver transplantation were excluded. RESULTS: Patients with MASLD requiring some assistance (aHR: 1.57, 95% CI 1.03-2.39, p = 0.04) and those requiring total assistance (aHR: 2.32, 95% CI 1.48-3.64, p < 0.001) had higher incidences of graft failure compared to those requiring no assistance. Those with MASLD requiring total assistance had a higher all-cause mortality rate than those needing no assistance (aHR: 1.62, 95% CI 1.38-1.89, p < 0.001). Patients with hereditary causes of liver disease showed a lower incidence of all-cause mortality in recipients needing some assistance compared with those needing no assistance (aHR: 0.52, 95% CI 0.34-0.80, p = 0.003). LT recipients with hepatitis C, AID, and ALD all showed higher incidences of all-cause mortality in the total assistance cohort when compared to the no assistance cohort. For the secondary endpoints of specific cause of death, transplant recipients with MASLD needing total assistance had higher rates of death due to general cardiac causes, graft rejection, general infectious causes, sepsis, general renal causes, and general respiratory causes. CONCLUSION: Patients with MASLD cirrhosis demonstrated the worst overall outcomes, suggesting that this population may be particularly vulnerable. Poor functional status in patients with end-stage liver disease from hepatitis B or hereditary disease was not associated with a significantly increased rate of adverse outcomes, suggesting that the KPS score may not be broadly applicable to all patients awaiting LT.
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PURPOSE: To compare health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and functional status between obese, underweight, normal-weight, and overweight patients after three months post-intensive care unit (ICU) discharge. METHODS: Multicenter cohort study (10 Brazilian ICUs). 1600 ICU survivors (≥ 72 h in the ICU) were included.The main outcomes were HRQoL and functional status assessed three months after the ICU discharge. The secondary outcomes were mortality, hospital readmission, and ICU readmission during the same period. RESULTS: Obese patients (median 50.1; IQR 39.6-59.6) had lower HRQoL in the mental component than normal-weight patients (median 53; IQR 45.6-60.1) (p = 0.033). No differences were found between BMI categories regarding the physical component of HRQoL and the Barthel Index (p = 0.355 and 0.295, respectively). Regarding readmissions, 65.1 and 25.1% of patients were readmitted to the hospital and ICU, but there was no difference between the groups (p = 0.870 and 0.220, respectively). Obese patients died less frequently (11.8%) than underweight (30.9%) and normal-weight (19.3%) patients (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: After three months of post-ICU discharge, obese patients had lower HRQoL in the mental component than normal-weight patients. However, obese patients died less than underweight and normal-weight patients.
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Qualidade de Vida , Magreza , Humanos , Qualidade de Vida/psicologia , Estudos de Coortes , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva , Obesidade , SobreviventesRESUMO
To evaluate the association between nutritional risk and functionality of children and adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 at admission and discharge. METHODS: Retrospective cross-sectional study with patients under 19 years old, positive for SARS-COV-2 by RT-PCR test, from February 2020 to May 2022. The STRONGKids screening (Screening Tool Risk On Nutritional Status and Growth) was used to assess nutritional risk on hospital admission and the Functional Status Scale (FSS-Brazil) to determine the functionality of patients on admission and discharge. Data was collected from hospital medical records. Poisson regressions with crude robust variance were used to test the association between nutritional risk and functional status at admission, with adjustments for the age, length of stay, and presence of complex chronic conditions. RESULTS: Of the 217 patients, 55.7% (n = 121) were boys with a median age of 6 years (IQ 0-12), 58.5% (n = 127) had at least one complex chronic condition, 64% (n = 139) had medium/high nutritional risk, and 23.9% (n = 52) had some degree of dysfunctionality upon admission and 14.6% (n = 31) upon discharge. By associating STRONGKids and the FSS-Brasil of hospital admission, it was observed that children with low nutritional risk had a mean global FSS lower (6.4 ± 0.7) than children with medium/high nutritional risk (7. 7 ± 2.8; p < 0.001). Children with low nutritional risk on admission also had a lower mean (6.1 ± 0.59) on the FSS at hospital discharge than children with medium/high nutritional risk (7.1 ± 2.5; p < 0.001). After adjustments, it was identified that the addition of one STRONGKids point increases by 36% (PR 1.36; 95%CI 1.15-1.62) the probability of the patient presenting some degree of functional impairment on admission. Conclusion: The study found a positive association between nutritional risk and functional impairment in hospitalized children and adolescents with COVID-19 on admission, even after adjusting for age, length of stay, and complex chronic conditions. Furthermore, patients with medium/high nutritional risk at admission also had worse functionality, both on admission and at discharge. WHAT IS KNOWN: ⢠Children and adolescents infected with COVID-19 tend to exhibit milder symptoms and lower hospitalization rates compared to adults, although severe cases and complications can occur. ⢠A paucity of targeted investigations exists regarding the correlation between nutritional risk and functionality in children and adolescents with COVID-19. WHAT IS NEW: ⢠Children and adolescents with COVID-19 who presented with medium to high nutritional risk upon hospital admission demonstrated functional impairments, both at admission and hospital discharge.
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COVID-19 , Desnutrição , Criança , Masculino , Adulto , Humanos , Adolescente , Adulto Jovem , Feminino , Avaliação Nutricional , Estudos Transversais , Estudos Retrospectivos , COVID-19/epidemiologia , COVID-19/complicações , SARS-CoV-2 , Estado Nutricional , Hospitalização , Doença Crônica , Desnutrição/etiologiaRESUMO
Literature suggests that dementia and, more generally, cognitive impairment affect the capacity to carry out activities of daily living (ADL) in aging. However, it is important to decipher the weight of specific cognitive domains and neurodegenerative profiles mainly related to ADL difficulties. A meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the nature and strength of the association between cognitive functioning and ADL in healthy older adults, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and dementia. A comprehensive search of the PubMed, PsycINFO (PROQUEST), and Scopus databases for cross-sectional or longitudinal studies up until December 2022. Our meta-analytic results revealed that: overall, instrumental ADL (IADL) showed a significant association with executive functioning, in particular, abstraction ability/concept formation, set-shifting, and processing speed/complex attention/working memory, regardless of type of participants (i.e., healthy older adults, MCI, and dementia); whereas ADL (both basic ADL, BADL, and IADL) significantly correlated with global cognitive functioning and long-term verbal memory, with a moderator effect of clinical condition (e.g., increasing ES based on the level of cognitive impairment). Moreover, visuospatial and language abilities significantly correlated with ADL, mainly when performance-based tasks were used for ADL assessment. These findings emphasize the importance of neuropsychological assessment in aging to early identify people most at risk of functional decline and shed light on the need to consider specific cognitive abilities in rehabilitation programs.
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Atividades Cotidianas , Envelhecimento , Disfunção Cognitiva , Demência , Humanos , Disfunção Cognitiva/fisiopatologia , Disfunção Cognitiva/psicologia , Demência/fisiopatologia , Demência/psicologia , Envelhecimento/fisiologia , Envelhecimento/psicologia , Cognição/fisiologia , Função Executiva/fisiologiaRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Studies of community-dwelling older adults find subjective age affects health and functional outcomes. This study explored whether younger subjective age serves as a protective factor against hospital-associated physical, cognitive, and emotional decline, well-known consequences of hospitalization among the elderly. METHODS: This study is a secondary data analysis of a subsample (N = 262; age: 77.5 ± 6.6 years) from the Hospitalization Process Effects on Mobility Outcomes and Recovery (HoPE-MOR) study. Psychological and physical subjective age, measured as participants' reports on the degree to which they felt older or younger than their chronological age, was assessed at the time of hospital admission. Independence in activities of daily living, life-space mobility, cognitive function, and depressive symptoms were assessed at hospital admission and 1 month post-discharge. RESULTS: The odds of decline in cognitive status, functional status, and community mobility and the exacerbation of depressive symptoms were significantly lower in those reporting younger vs. older psychological subjective age (odds ratio [OR] = 0.68, 95% CI = 0.46-0.98; OR = 0.59, 95% CI = 0.36-0.98; OR = 0.64, 95% CI = 0.44-0.93; OR = 0.64, 95% CI = 0.43-0.96, respectively). Findings were significant after controlling for demographic, functional, cognitive, emotional, chronic, and acute health predictors. Physical subjective age was not significantly related to post-hospitalization outcomes. CONCLUSION: Psychological subjective age can identify older adults at risk for poor hospitalization outcomes and should be considered for preventive interventions.
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Atividades Cotidianas , Alta do Paciente , Humanos , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Assistência ao Convalescente , Hospitalização , CogniçãoRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: Assessing functional limitations for adults at high risk of frailty yields valuable information for identifying those in need of therapy. We evaluate a self-report measure used to assess physical function among Medicare recipients in the United States. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of the 2020 Medicare Health Outcomes Survey. SETTING: A random sample of adult enrollees of 510 managed care plans. PARTICIPANTS: 287,476 adults (37% completion rate): 58% women; 16% were <65 years old (entitled via disability), 50% 65-74, and 34% 75 or older; 77% White, 14% Black, and 8% another race; 19% had Assuntos
Atividades Cotidianas
, Medicare
, Adulto
, Humanos
, Feminino
, Idoso
, Estados Unidos
, Masculino
, Reprodutibilidade dos Testes
, Inquéritos e Questionários
, Avaliação de Resultados em Cuidados de Saúde
, Avaliação da Deficiência
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OBJECTIVE: To compare the preliminary efficacy of asynchronous telerehabilitation in patients after acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on fatigue, physical condition, quality of life, and feasibility of this pilot study with that of a booklet format. DESIGN: Randomized pilot study with 2 intervention arms: asynchronous telerehabilitation group and booklet-based rehabilitation group, with 2 follow-ups at 3 and 6 months. SETTING: Hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Patients discharged after COVID-19 were recruited and evaluated (N=35). INTERVENTIONS: The intervention consisted of a 12-week multimodal rehabilitation program via telerehabilitation or by a booklet. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Fatigue as the main outcome and functional status, quality of life, and feasibility as secondary outcomes were evaluated. RESULTS: After the intervention, there was no significant difference between groups in fatigue, but there were significant differences in favor of the asynchronous telerehabilitation group for the 6-Minute Walk Test (p=.008), the 30-Second Sit-to-Stand Test (p=.019), and physical quality of life (p=.035). These improvements were maintained throughout the 6-month follow-up. Telerehabilitation was shown to be a viable option, without incidents and with a higher adhesion (p=.028) than the booklet format. CONCLUSIONS: A multimodal rehabilitation program by means of asynchronous telerehabilitation appears as a more effective option than traditional formats in improving post-acute COVID-19 sequelae.
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COVID-19 , Fadiga , Qualidade de Vida , Telerreabilitação , Humanos , COVID-19/reabilitação , Projetos Piloto , Masculino , Feminino , Fadiga/reabilitação , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , SARS-CoV-2 , Idoso , Adulto , Estudos de ViabilidadeRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To determine if the receipt of occupational performance coaching (OPC) by adults living with multiple sclerosis (MS) improves participants' satisfaction with performance in daily activities (primary outcome); improves perceived performance in daily activities, resilience, autonomy, and participation; and reduces illness intrusiveness and effect of MS (secondary outcomes). DESIGN: Two-group randomized clinical trial with a waitlist control. SETTING: Community. PARTICIPANTS: Convenience sample of adults with MS were recruited through a research registry. Eighty-three individuals were approached; 35 were assessed for eligibility and 31 were enrolled and 30 completed baseline assessment (Final sample size, N=30). Participants were English-speaking, were without serious cognitive impairment or severe depression, and were not receiving other coaching interventions. INTERVENTIONS: Six telephone sessions of OPC were delivered by a trained facilitator over 10 weeks. Initial sessions focused on goal setting, prioritization, and action planning. Subsequent sessions involved goal and action plan review, discussion of facilitators and barriers, and goal and plan refinement. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Primary outcome was participants' satisfaction with performance in daily activities, as measured by the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM). Secondary outcome measures included the COPM performance rating, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Impact on Participation and Autonomy Questionnaire, Adapted Illness Intrusiveness Rating Scale, and MS Impact Scale. Measures were administered by a blinded assessor at baseline, 10 weeks, and 2 months. RESULTS: Participants in the intervention and waitlist control groups were equivalent on demographic and outcome measures at baseline. At 10 weeks, the intervention group had significantly higher COPM ratings for both satisfaction (P<.001) and performance (P=.002). No other outcomes were significantly different. For the intervention group, the benefits of OPC were maintained at 2 months. CONCLUSIONS: OPC led to improved satisfaction with performance and performance in daily activities. Future research with a larger sample is needed to determine other effects and who benefits most from OPC.