Publications by authors named "Ilaria Barbin"

Aims: To analyse the prevalence of any-stage pressure injuries at hospital admission and their impact on short-, mid- and late-term mortality. Patient characteristics associated with pressure injuries and the impact on hospital costs were also investigated.

Background: In medical patients acutely admitted to hospital, no study analysed the presence of pre-existing pressure injuries and the related short- and long-term mortality according to the overall stages of severity thereof.

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Background & Aims: In hospitalized patients malnutrition is a risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes. The Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) represents a quick and simple tool to identify malnutrition risk in this population. No study tested the predictive power of NRS-2002 on mortality adjusting for confounders related to patient's complexity, thus considering conditions such as functional status, illness-related severity and inflammation.

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