24-hour mortality of seniors acutely hospitalized for internal diseases - can it be affected by the presence of diabetes as a comorbidity?
2021
Abstract
The authors analyzed the data of 4361 patients over the age of 65 hospitalized in 2016-2018 at the 1st Department of Geriatrics, Charles University Medical Faculty and the University of Bratislava. The results showed that 2.3% of patients died within 24 hours of admission, representing 15.6% of all deaths.
The three most common causes of death among the 25 identified diseases were acute myocardial infarction (17.8%), bronchopneumonia (14.9%) and sepsis (12.9%). There was no acute complication of diabetes among them, and because the analysis did not address patient comorbidities, these data were not reported on diabetes.