Characteristics of older adults receiving enteral feeding at a geriatric medical center.

Background: Malnutrition is a prevalent and hard-to-treat condition in older adults. enteral feeding is common in acute and long-term care. Data regarding the prognosis of patients receiving enteral feeding in geriatric medical settings is lacking.

Factors Associated with In-Hospital Mortality in Elderly Internal Medicine Patients with Nasogastric Tube Feeding.

Purpose: To evaluate demographic, clinical, and laboratory variables, and their associations with in-hospital mortality, among elderly internal medicine patients with nasogastric tube (NGT) feeding.

Patients And Methods: Demographic, clinical, and laboratory data were collected retrospectively for 129 patients aged ≥80 years who initiated NGT feeding during their hospitalization in internal medicine wards. The data were compared between survivors and non-survivors.

Prolonged stay at an acute-care hospital in Israel among older adults awaiting transfer to post-acute care: retrospective study on risk factors and consequences.

Background: Older adults frequently experience deconditioning following acute illnesses and require discharge from acute-care facilities to post-acute care facilities, which are limited. Our study aimed to explore predictors and outcomes associated with elongated length of stay (LOS) among older adults awaiting discharge to skilled nursing facility (SNF).

Methods: Retrospective cohort study was conducted at Shamir Medical Center, Israel, among adults (> 65 years) eligible for SNF.

[GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY - CANCER TREATMENT IN OLDER ADULTS AND OLDEST-OLD].

Introduction: Geriatric oncology is the clinical field of cancer treatment in older adults (above 65 years) and in the oldest-old (above 80 years). As age is the most significant risk factor for cancer, and with the aging of the population, there is a vast increase in the number of older cancer patients.

Background: The cases highlight the unique challenges in geriatric oncology: disease goals may differ; treatment toxicities are higher; the extensive use of prescription medication increases the chances of harmful drug-drug interactions; finally, older adults have unique psychosocial needs.

The prognostic role of functional dependency in older inpatients with COVID-19.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic infection with substantial risk of death, especially in elderly persons. Information about the prognostic significance of functional status in older patients with COVID-19 is scarce.

Methods: Demographic, clinical, laboratory and short-term mortality data were collected of 186 consecutive patients aged ≥ 65 years hospitalized with COVID-19.

Platelet distribution width: a novel prognostic marker in an internal medicine ward.

: Platelet distribution width (PDW) has demonstrated clinical significance in populations with specific disorders; its prognostic significance in internal medicine wards has not been investigated. : Demographic, clinical and laboratory data were collected prospectively for 1036 internal medicine inpatients. The primary outcome was 90-day mortality, secondary outcomes were: treatment with mechanical ventilation, prolonged hospital stay, in-hospital death, and all-cause mortality following discharge.

Prognostic significance of a prolonged international normalized ratio in elderly patients in an internal medicine ward.

Purpose: To investigate clinical characteristics and the prognostic significance of a prolonged international normalized ratio (INR) without obvious cause or anticoagulant treatment, in elderly inpatients.

Methods: Demographic, clinical, and laboratory data, in-hospital death and 30day-mortality were prospectively registered for 100 consecutive patients aged ≥75years admitted to an internal medicine ward for a variety of acute medical disorders, and compared according to normal (≤1.15) and prolonged (>1.

Biochemical, immunological and enzymatic components of saliva in prolonged naso-gastric-fed elderly patients.

Background And Aims: We have previously shown that naso-gastric tube (NGT)-fed patients harbor pathogenic flora in their oropharynx. The purpose of this study was to examine comparatively the biochemical, immunological and enzymatic components of the saliva of these patients with that of orally-fed counterparts.

Methods: The study group consisted of 19 elderly NGT-fed patients and 18 comparable patients on oral feeding.

Saliva secretion and oral flora in prolonged nasogastric tube-fed elderly patients.

Background: In a previous study we showed that prolonged nasogastric tube feeding is associated with pathogenic oral flora.

Objective: To reexamine the impact of prolonged nasogastric tube feeding on the oral microbiota and to explore the salivary flow and composition in elderly patients in long-term care.

Methods: We compared a group of elderly patients fed by nasogastric tube with a control group of elderly patients in long-term care who are fed orally.

Pathogenic colonization of oral flora in frail elderly patients fed by nasogastric tube or percutaneous enterogastric tube.

Background: Aspiration of infected oropharyngeal content is the main cause of aspiration pneumonia. This complication, mainly related to gram-negative bacteria, threatens percutaneous enterogastric tube as well as nasogastric tube (NGT) fed patients. The objective of this study was to examine the oral microbiota of tuboenterally fed patients and compare it with that of orally fed counterparts.