The incidence of acute renal failure and high mortality rate in elderly patients hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia.

Community acquired pneumonia is associated with high mortality and health care costs, especially in old age. The clinical presentation of pneumonia in the elderly may be asymptomatic or atypical. One of the known complication is an acute kidney injury.

Time to Resolution of Infection in COVID-19 Patients: the Experience of a Tertiary Medical Center in Israel.

With the spread of coronavirus disease, reports have indicated that young patients are usually asymptomatic with a short convalescence period. The current study compared the time to resolution of infection in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. Seventy-six patients aged 44.

The association between Norton scale gain and functional outcome among older hip fracture patients.

Aim: This study examines interrelations between gains of Norton Scale Score (NSS) and functional outcome measured by Functional Independence Measurement (FIM) among older hip fracture patients.

Design: Retrospective study.

Methods: We examined 227 patients consecutively hospitalized in a geriatric postacute rehabilitation ward.

The impact of intensive staff education on rate of Clostridium difficile-associated disease in hospitalized geriatric patients.

Background: Toxin-producing Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of nosocomial diarrhea in geriatric units.

Aim: The purpose of study was to check the impact of intensive staff education on rate of Clostridium difficile-associated disease in hospitalized geriatric patients.

Methods: The sampling frame was all patients suffering from diarrhea checked for Clostridium difficile toxin during the years 2017-2018.

An Information Theory Approach for the Analysis of Individual and Combined Evaluation Parameters of Multiple Age-Related Diseases.

In view of the frequent presence of several aging-related diseases in geriatric patients, there is a need to develop analytical methodologies that would be able to perform diagnostic evaluation of several diseases at once by individual or combined evaluation parameters and select the most informative parameters or parameter combinations. So far there have been no established formal methods to enable such capabilities. We develop a new formal method for the evaluation of multiple age-related diseases by calculating the informative values (normalized mutual information) of particular parameters or parameter combinations on particular diseases, and then combine the ranks of informative values to provide an overall estimation (or correlation) on several diseases at once.