Effect of diabetes on mortality and length of hospital stay in patients with renal or perinephric abscess
Clinics
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68(8): 1109-1114, 2013. tab
Article
in English
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| ID: lil-685435
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
We compared the risk of in-hospital mortality and the length of hospital stay between diabetic and non-diabetic patients hospitalized for renal or perinephric abscess.METHOD:
The data analyzed in this study were retrieved from Taiwan's National Health Insurance claims. The risk of in-hospital mortality and the length of hospital stay were compared between 1,715 diabetic patients, hospitalized because of renal or perinephric abscess in Taiwan between 1997 and 2007, and a random sample of 477 non-diabetes patients with renal or perinephric abscess.RESULTS:
The in-hospital mortality rates from renal or perinephric abscess for the diabetic patients and the non-diabetic patients were not different, at 2.3% and 3.4%, respectively. However, diabetes was significantly associated with a longer length of hospital stay among patients with renal abscess, by 3.38 days (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.59-5.17).CONCLUSIONS:
Diabetes does not increase the risk of in-hospital mortality from renal or perinephric abscess. Nevertheless, appropriate management of patients with diabetes and concurrent renal or perinephric abscess is essential to reduce the length of hospital stay. .
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Main subject:
Hospital Mortality
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Diabetes Mellitus
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Abscess
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Kidney Diseases
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Length of Stay
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Incidence study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Clinics
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2013
Type:
Article
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