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Higher mortality and hospital charges in patients with cirrhosis and acute respiratory illness: a population-based study. Scientific reports Zou, B. n., Yeo, Y. H., Jeong, D. n., Sheen, E. n., Park, H. n., Nguyen, P. n., Hsu, Y. C., Garcia, G. n., Nguyen, M. H. 2018; 8 (1): 9969

Abstract

Both cirrhosis and acute respiratory illness (ARI) carry substantial disease and financial burden. To compare hospitalized patients with cirrhosis with ARI to cirrhotic patients without ARI, a retrospective cohort study was conducted using the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development database. To balance the groups, propensity score matching (PSM) was used. We identified a total of 46,192 cirrhotic patients during the three study periods (14,049, 15,699, and 16,444 patients, respectively). Among patients hospitalized with cirrhosis, the ARI prevalence was higher in older age groups (p?

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