Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the study population at admission to the geriatric rehabilitation department
From: Immune risk phenotype is associated with nosocomial lung infections in elderly in-patients
Patients (n = 252) | |
|---|---|
Age, mean ± SD, years | 85.2 ± 6.2 |
Sex (male/female) | 71/181 |
Marital status, n (%) | |
- married | 78 (31) |
- single | 14 (5) |
- divorced | 4 (2) |
- widowed | 156 (62) |
Living arrangements, n (%) | |
-home | 243 (96) |
-nursing home | 9 (4) |
Main reason for hospital admission, n (%) | |
- cardiopulmonary disease | 65 (25.8) |
- dementia | 61 (24.2) |
- psychiatric disease | 14 (5.5) |
- stroke | 26 (10.3) |
- neurological disease | 17 (6.7) |
- metabolic and other diseases | 18 (7.1) |
- osteoporosis and/or fracture | 51 (20.2) |
Patients with at least one nosocomial infection, n (%) | 97 (38.5) |
Sites (n = 115) | |
- Respiratory tract, n (%) | 53 (21) |
- pneumonia | 45 (17.9) |
- bronchitis | 9 (3.6) |
- Urinary tract, n (%) | 43 (17.1) |
- Gastrointestinal tract | 3 (1.2) |
- Skin | 11 (4.4) |
- Other | 5 (2.0) |