Hospital Mortality

BOSTON — Hospitalization for a cardiac cause vs. a noncardiac cause in patients with cystic fibrosis yielded elevated in-hospital mortality, according to a presentation at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Hospital overcrowding accounted for roughly 20% of COVID-19 deaths even when vaccines and other therapeutics became available, highlighting the importance of managing case surges during public health crises, according to an expert.

Compared with 2019, in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitalizations for acute MI were down but in-hospital mortality in that population rose in the U.S., researchers reported in the Korean Circulation Journal.

Patients without health insurance experienced higher rates of unplanned surgery, inpatient mortality and complications for access-sensitive conditions that could be treated electively, according to data published in JAMA Surgery.

Hospitals that performed at least 25 major hepatectomies per year had lower rates of postoperative in-hospital mortality and failure to rescue, suggesting better management of postoperative complications.

According to this study, researchers developed clinical models to predict mortality and kidney recovery among critically ill patients with incident AKI in the ICU that outperformed standard scoring tools.

For patients receiving maintenance dialysis, longer CPR duration correlated with unsuccessful CPR and death during the same hospital stay, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

In a cohort of patients with STEMI, a COVID-19 diagnosis significantly increased the rates of in-hospital mortality compared with patients without a COVID-19 diagnosis from the past year, according to new data.

Adults with diabetes admitted to two ICUs in China were less likely to survive if they had a larger gap between mean blood glucose 7 days after ICU admission and HbA1c-derived average glucose, according to study data.

Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 with end-stage renal disease exhibited better outcomes than patients with non-dialysis chronic kidney disease, according to a study.