Clinics (Jan 2013)

Effect of diabetes on mortality and length of hospital stay in patients with renal or perinephric abscess

  • Ming-Chung Ko,
  • Allen Wen-Hsiang Chiu,
  • Chih-Ching Liu,
  • Chih-Kuang Liu,
  • Lin-Chung Woung,
  • Lai-King Yu,
  • Chung-Yi Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.6061/clinics/2013(08)08
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 68, no. 8
pp. 1109 – 1114

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: We compared the risk of in-hospital mortality and the length of hospital stay between diabetic and non-diabetic patients hospitalized for renal or perinephric abscess. METHOD: The data analyzed in this study were retrieved from Taiwan's National Health Insurance claims. The risk of in-hospital mortality and the length of hospital stay were compared between 1,715 diabetic patients, hospitalized because of renal or perinephric abscess in Taiwan between 1997 and 2007, and a random sample of 477 non-diabetes patients with renal or perinephric abscess. RESULTS: The in-hospital mortality rates from renal or perinephric abscess for the diabetic patients and the non-diabetic patients were not different, at 2.3% and 3.4%, respectively. However, diabetes was significantly associated with a longer length of hospital stay among patients with renal abscess, by 3.38 days (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.59-5.17). CONCLUSIONS: Diabetes does not increase the risk of in-hospital mortality from renal or perinephric abscess. Nevertheless, appropriate management of patients with diabetes and concurrent renal or perinephric abscess is essential to reduce the length of hospital stay.

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