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Serum albumin level on admission as a predictor of death, length of stay, and readmission
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Herrmann, François
Safran, C.
Levkoff, S. E.
Minaker, K. L.
Published in Archives of Internal Medicine. 1992, vol. 152, no. 1, p. 125-130
Abstract We studied the serum albumin level within 48 hours of hospitalization for acute illness to predict in-hospital death, length of stay, and readmission in 15,511 patients older than 40 years. Patients with low serum albumin levels (less than 34 g/L), who made up 21% of the population, were more likely to die, had longer hospital stays, and were readmitted sooner and more frequently than patients with normal albumin levels. The in-hospital mortality was 14% among patients with low albumin levels, as compared with 4% among patients with normal levels. Although the serum albumin level was a nonspecific marker, it was a stronger predictor of death, length of stay, and readmission than age. We conclude that the serum albumin level on admission is an important variable that should be incorporated in severity-of-illness measures based on physiologic indexes.
Keywords Adult — Aged — Aged, 80 and over — Biological Markers/chemistry — Boston/epidemiology — Female — Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over — *Hospital Mortality — Human — Length of Stay/*statistics & numerical data — Male — Middle Aged — Multivariate Analysis — *Patient Readmission — Predictive Value of Tests — Regression Analysis — Retrospective Studies — Serum Albumin/*analysis — Severity of Illness Index — Support, Non-U.S. Gov't — Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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PMID: 1728907
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine interne générale, de réhabilitation et de gériatrie
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(ISO format) 		HERRMANN, François et al. Serum albumin level on admission as a predictor of death, length of stay, and readmission. In: Archives of Internal Medicine, 1992, vol. 152, n° 1, p. 125-130. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:28121

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