• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제64권6호
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• pp.995-1003
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• 2021

Objective : People are living longer and the elderly population continues to increase. The incidence of degenerative spinal diseases (DSDs) in the elderly population is quite high. Therefore, we are facing more cases of DSD and offering more surgical solutions in geriatric patients. Understanding the significance and association of frailty and central sarcopenia as risk factors for spinal surgery in elderly patients will be helpful in improving surgical outcomes. We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of prospectively collected data to assess the impact of preoperative central sarcopenia, frailty, and comorbidity on surgical outcome in elderly patients with DSD. Methods : We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients who underwent elective spinal surgery performed from January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020 at our hospital. We included patients aged 65 and over who underwent surgery on the thoracic or lumbar spine and were diagnosed as DSD. Central sarcopenia was measured by the 50th percentile of psoas : L4 vertebral index (PLVI) using the cross-sectional area of the psoas muscle. We used the Korean version of the fatigue, resistance, ambulation, illnesses, and loss of weight (K-FRAIL) scale to measure frailty. Comorbidity was confirmed and scored using the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). As a tool for measuring surgical outcome, we used the Clavien-Dindo (CD) classification for postoperative complications and the length of stay (LOS). Results : This study included 85 patients (35 males and 50 females). The mean age was 74.05±6.47 years. Using the K-FRAIL scale, four patients were scored as robust, 44 patients were pre-frail and 37 patients were frail. The mean PLVI was 0.61±0.19. According to the CD classification, 50 patients were classified as grade 1, 19 as grade 2, and four as grade 4. The mean LOS was 12.35±8.17 days. Multivariate stepwise regression analysis showed that postoperative complication was significantly associated with surgical invasiveness and K-FRAIL scale. LOS was significantly associated with surgical invasiveness and CCI. K-FRAIL scale showed a significant correlation with CCI and PLVI. Conclusion : The present study demonstrates that frailty, comorbidity, and surgical invasiveness are important risk factors for postoperative complications and LOS in elderly patients with DSD. Preoperative recognition of these factors may be useful for perioperative optimization, risk stratification, and patient counseling.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제79권4호
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• pp.289-294
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• 2016

Background: The aim of our study was to evaluate the prognostic value of Charlson's weighted index of comorbidities (WIC) in patients with prolonged acute mechanical ventilation (PAMV, ventilator care ${\geq}96$ hours). Methods: We retrospectively enrolled 299 Korean PAMV patients who were admitted in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) of a university-affiliated tertiary care hospital between 2008 and 2013. Survivors were defined as patients who survived for 60 days after ICU admission. Results: The patients' mean age was $65.1{\pm}14.1$ years and 70.6% were male. The mean ICU and hospital length of stay was $21.9{\pm}19.7$ and $39.4{\pm}39.1$ days, respectively. In addition, the 60-day mortality rate after ICU admission was 35.5%. The mean WIC was $2.3{\pm}1.8$, with significant differences between nonsurvivors and survivors ($2.7{\pm}2.1$ vs. $2.1{\pm}1.7$, p<0.05). The area under the curve of receiver-operating-characteristics curve for WIC was 0.593 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.523-0.661; p<0.05). Based on Kaplan-Meier curves of 60-day survival, WIC ${\geq}5$ had statistically lower survival than WIC <5 (logrank test, p<0.05). In a multivariate Cox proportional hazard model, WIC ${\geq}5$ was associated with poor prognosis (hazard ratio, 1.901; 95% CI, 1.140-3.171; p<0.05). The mortality rate of patients with WIC ${\geq}5$ was 54.2%. Conclusion: Our study showed a WIC score ${\geq}5$ might be helpful in predicting 60-day mortality in PAMV patients.

• 한국노년학
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.231-240
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• 2019

본 연구의 목적은 2012년부터 2015년까지의 질병관리본부의 퇴원손상심층조사 자료를 바탕으로 병원에 입원한 치매환자 중 낙상과 관련된 특성과 낙상 영향 요인을 파악하는 것이다. 한국표준질병사인분류의 질병 코드를 사용하여 치매로 진단 받은 60세 이상 환자를 선정하여, 낙상(W00-W19) 유무에 따라 낙상군과 비낙상군으로 구분한 총 1,732건을 최종분석에 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 통계 프로그램 STATA를 이용하여 빈도분석, 교차분석(chi-square test)과 로지스틱 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과 전체 치매 입원환자 중 낙상은 8.0%에서 발생하였다. 낙상군과 비낙상군의 범주별 분석에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 연령에서 있었다. 질환 특성에서는 CCI(Charlson Comorbidity Index) 및 골밀도장애가 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다. 낙상에 영향을 미치는 요인의 로지스틱 회귀분석 결과 60-69세 대상자를 기준으로 했을 때, 80세 이상의 노인은 낙상위험이 2.386배 높고, CCI가 0점인 대상자를 기준으로 했을 때, 3점 이상인 대상자의 낙상 위험이 0.421배로 낮으며, 골밀도장애가 없는 대상자를 기준으로 했을 때, 골밀도장애가 있는 대상자의 낙상위험이 3.581배 높았다. 본 연구의 결과 치매 입원환자는 연령이 80세 이상인 경우 약 2.3배, 골밀도장애가 있는 경우 약 3.5배 이상 낙상이 높을 수 있으며, 반면에 CCI가 3점인 경우 약 0.4배로 낙상이 낮을 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 입원한 치매환자의 낙상 관련 영향 요인은 입원한 치매환자 및 돌봄자들에 대한 낙상 예방 교육에 도움이 되고 의료진의 치매환자 낙상 관리를 위한 의사결정에 기초자료로 사용되길 기대한다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.26-37
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• 2024

연구배경: 본 연구의 목적은 척추전문병원과 비전문병원의 건당 진료비 및 재원일수 차이를 비교 분석하고, 이에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하는 것이다. 방법: 본 연구는 2021년 1월부터 2022년 12월까지의 입원 환자 진료비를 포함한 건강보험심사평가원의 청구 데이터를 사용했다. 의료기관 현황 데이터는 연구대상 병원의 특성을 파악하는 데 사용되었다. 다수준분석을 통해 건당 진료비와 관련된 요인을 파악하고, 포아송 회귀분석을 통해 척추전문병원과 비전문병원 간 재원일수를 분석했다. 분석대상은 척추전문병원 32,015건, 비전문병원 17,555건이었다. 결과: 다빈도 척추 수술 5건 중 4건의 경우, 전문병원이 비전문병원보다 재원일수가 더 긴 것으로 나타났다. 다수준분석 및 포아송 회귀분석 결과, 수술유형에 관계없이 연령이 높고, Charlson comorbidity index 점수가 높을수록 건당 진료비와 재원일수 모두 유의하게 증가하는 것으로 나타났다(p<0.05). 그러나 병원이 대도시에 위치한 경우에는 유의미하게 감소하였다(p<0.05). 결론: 본 연구에서는 기존 연구결과와 달리 전문병원의 건당 진료비와 재원일수가 더 긴 것으로 나타났다. 향후 이러한 차이의 원인을 찾기 위해 추가적인 연구가 필요하다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.227-233
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• 2018

Objectives: Chronic diseases, including back pain, result in significant patient morbidity and societal burden. Overall improvement in physical fitness is recommended for prevention and treatment. Walking is a convenient modality for achieving initial gains. Our objective was to determine whether neighbourhood walkability, acting as a surrogate measure of physical fitness, was associated with the presence of chronic disease. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of prospectively collected data from a prior randomized cohort study of 227 patients referred for tertiary assessment of chronic back pain in Ottawa, ON, Canada. The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) was calculated from patient-completed questionnaires and medical record review. Using patients' postal codes, neighbourhood walkability was determined using the Walk Score, which awards points based on the distance to the closest amenities, yielding a score from 0 to 100 (0-50: car-dependent; 50-100: walkable). Results: Based on the Walk Score, 134 patients lived in car-dependent neighborhoods and 93 lived in walkable neighborhoods. A multivariate logistic regression model, adjusted for age, gender, rural postal code, body mass index, smoking, median household income, percent employment, pain, and disability, demonstrated an adjusted odds ratio of 2.75 (95% confidence interval, 1.16 to 6.53) times higher prevalence for having a chronic disease for patients living in a car-dependent neighborhood. There was also a significant dose-related association (p=0.01; Mantel-Haenszel chi-square=6.4) between living in car-dependent neighbourhoods and more severe CCI scores. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that advocating for improved neighbourhood planning to permit greater walkability may help offset the burden of chronic disease.

• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2021

Background: With an increase in the number of breast cancer survivors, greater importance is attached to health-related quality of life, particularly pain and symptom control. This study aimed to identify the factors that are associated with pain in cancer patients based on the patterns of prescribing opioid, non-opioid, and adjuvant analgesics. Methods: This analysis included new patients who had developed breast cancer between 2003 and 2012. The degree of pain was analyzed based on the socio-demographic (age, income quintile, number of hospitalizations, and duration of disease), indicator (Body Mass Index; BMI, Charlson Comorbidity Index; CCI, Cumulative Analgesic Consumption Score; CACS), operation (mastectomy, lymph node dissection), and therapy (chemotherapy, radiation therapy), as well as complication-related variable (lymphedema). Results: As for the patterns of prescribing analgesics by stages, non-opioid and opioid analgesics constituted 30.7 and 69.3%, respectively. The mean value and variance of CACS were 5.596 and 12.567, respectively. The factors that significantly affected the degree of pain were age (≥50; IRR: 1.848, 95% CI 1.564-2.184, p=0.000), income quintile (IRR: 0.964, 95% CI 0.938-0.991, p=0.008), BMI (≥ 25; IRR: 1.479, 95% CI 1.222-1.795, p=0.000), CCI (≥ 4; IRR: 1.649, 95% CI 1.344-2.036, p=0.000), and lymphedema (yes; IRR: 1.267, 95% CI 1.006-1.610, p=0.047). Conclusions: It is necessary to develop systematic and comprehensive pain control measures to improve the quality of life for breast cancer survivors, especially for those who are 50 years or older, lie in the lower-income quintile, have BMI of ≥25 and CCI score ≥ 4, or have lymphedema.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.218-227
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• 2023

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Malnutrition during hospitalization is linked to increased morbidity and mortality, but there are insufficient studies observing clinical factors contributing to weight loss during hospitalization in Indonesia. This study was therefore undertaken to determine the rate of weight loss during hospitalization and the contributing factors. SUBJECTS/METHODS: This was a prospective study involving hospitalized adult patients aged 18-59 yrs, conducted between July and September 2019. Body weight measurement was taken at the time of admission and on the last day of hospitalization. The factors studied were malnutrition at admission (body mass index < 18.5 kg/m²), immobilization, depression (Beck Depression Inventory-II Indonesia), polypharmacy, inflammatory status (neutrophil-lymphocytes ratio; NLR), comorbidity status (Charlson Comorbidity Index; CCI), and length of stay. RESULTS: Totally, 55 patients were included in the final analysis, with a median age of 39 (18-59 yrs) yrs. Of these, 27% had malnutrition at admission, 31% had a CCI score > 2, and 26% had an NLR value of ≥ 9. In all, 62% presented with gastrointestinal symptoms, and depression was documented in one-third of the subjects at admission. Overall, we recorded a mean weight loss of 0.41 kg (P = 0.038) during hospitalization, with significant weight loss observed among patients hospitalized for 7 days or more (P = 0.009). The bivariate analysis revealed that inflammatory status (P = 0.016) was associated with in-hospital weight loss, while the multivariate analysis determined that the contributing factors were length of stay (P < 0.001) and depression (P = 0.019). CONCLUSIONS: We found that inflammatory status of the patient might influence the incidence of weight loss during hospitalization, while depression and length of stay were independent predictors of weight loss during hospitalization.

• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

Background: Along with the increase in the elderly population, concerns about polypharmacy, which can cause medication-related problems, are increasing. This study aimed to find out the association between drug-related factors and readmission in elderly patients within 30 days after discharge. Methods: Data of patients aged ≥65 years who were discharged from the respiratory medicine ward of a tertiary hospital between January and March 2016 were retrospectively obtained. The medication regimen complexity at discharge was calculated using the medication regimen complexity index (MRCI) score, comorbidity status was assessed using the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI), potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) were evaluated based on the Beer 2019 criteria, and adverse drug events (ADEs) were examined using the ADE reporting system. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the effect of medication-related problems on hospital readmission after controlling for other variables. Results: Of the 206 patients included, 84 (40.8%) used PIMs, 31 (15%) had ADEs, and 32 (15.5%) were readmitted. The mean age, total medications, MRCI, CCI, and PIMs in the readmission group were significantly higher than those in the non-readmission group. Age significantly decreased the risk of readmission (odds ratio [OR], 0.89; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.84-0.96) after adjusting for sex, length of hospital stay, and ADEs. The use of PIMs (OR, 2.38; 95% CI, 1.10-5.16) and increased CCI (OR, 1.50; 95% CI, 1.16-1.93) and MRCI (OR, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.01-1.07) were associated with an increased occurrence of readmission. Conclusion: PIMs were associated with a significantly greater risk for readmission than MRCI.

• Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.125-130
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• 2016

Background: Conventionally, elderly hip fracture patients are assessed by orthopedists to decide whether they need geriatric intervention. We aimed to evaluate the effect of perioperative geriatric intervention on healthcare outcomes in patients undergoing surgery for hip fractures. Methods: Our care model for hip fracture surgery resembles a combination of a routine geriatric consultation model and a geriatric ward model. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients aged ${\geq}65years$ undergoing surgery for hip fracture at a single tertiary hospital from January 2010 to December 2013. We assessed comorbidity, indwelling status, fracture type, and mode of anesthesia. We also evaluated in-hospital expenditure, duration of admission, disposition at discharge and 1-year mortality as clinical outcomes. We developed a propensity score model using the variables of age, cholesterol, and creatinine and examined the effect of perioperative geriatric intervention on intergroup differences of clinical variables. Results: Among 639 patients, 138 patients received the geriatric intervention and 501 patients received the usual care. Univariate analysis showed that factors such as age; Charlson comorbidity index; and serum levels of cholesterol, albumin, and creatinine differed significantly between these 2 groups. There was no significant difference between the groups in terms of 1-year mortality, disposition at discharge, and in-hospital expenditure in the propensity matched model. However, the duration of hospitalization was shorter in the intervention group ($8.9{\pm}0.8days$) than in the usual care group ($14.2{\pm}3.7days$, p=0.006). Conclusion: This care model of geriatric intervention for patients with hip fracture is associated with reduced hospitalization duration.

• 대한정형외과학회지
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2019

전 세계적으로 노인 인구는 급증하는 추세이며 노인 척추 변형 환자에 대한 변형 교정 수술도 점점 증가하고 있다. 그러나 노인 환자들을 대상으로 척추 변형 교정 수술 시 합병증을 줄이기 위해 고려해야 할 사항들, 그리고 수술 후 좋은 임상적인 결과를 예측하기 위한 객관적인 인자들에 대해 아직 많은 논의가 되지 않았다. 노인 척추 변형 환자에서 수술 전 고려해야 될 사항으로 Cumulative Illness Rating Scale for Geriatrics 및 Charlson Comorbidity Index scores 등의 지표를 이용하여 내과적 동반 질환을 확인해야 한다. 이들 지표는 술 후 합병증의 발생률과 연관이 있으며 수술 전 내과적인 질환을 조절하여 이 지표 수치를 낮춘 이후 수술을 시행할 경우 합병증을 줄일 수 있다. 두 번째, 수술 전 골밀도 검사를 시행하여 골다공증의 정도를 확인해야 한다. 심한 골다공증이 동반된 노인 척추 변형 환자의 경우 기기술과 관련된 합병증을 줄이기 위한 여러 가지 수술적인 기법들이 알려져 있으며 수술 전 골형성 유도제를 사용하여 골밀도를 교정하는 방법도 시도해볼 수 있다. 세 번째, 전 신체 시상학 정렬을 고려해야 한다. 노인 척추 변형 환자에서 고관절, 슬관절 등의 하지 관절의 퇴행성 변화와 변형을 동반하고 있는 경우가 흔하며 또한 척추의 변형이 보상작용으로 하지 관절의 변형을 일으키기도 한다. 최근 전 신체 시상학 정렬이 이전 사용되었던 척추나 골반에 국한된 지표보다 임상적인 상태를 더 잘 예측할 수 있는 것으로 보고되어 변형 교정 수술 시 전 신체 시상학 정렬을 고려하여야 하겠다. 결론으로 노인 척추 변형 환자에서 변형 교정 수술을 시행할 경우 내과적인 동반 질환, 골다공증의 정도를 확인하여 합병증을 줄이기 위해 수술 전 미리 교정하는 것이 필요하다. 또한 교정 수술 시 골반이나 척추에 국한된 지표에 비하여 임상적인 상태를 더 잘 예측할 수 있는 전 신체 시상학 정렬을 고려해야 한다.