Hospitalization for tuberculosis in the United States in 2000: Predictors of in-hospital mortality

Chest

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1079-1086

  Hansel, Nadia N ^a   Merriman, Barry ^a   Haponik, Edward F ^a   Diette, Gregory B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Health care costs; Hospitalization; Mycobacterium; Outcomes; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX RATIO; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 6344221805     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.126.4.1079     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Dye C, Scheele S, Dolin P, et al. Global burden of tuberculosis: estimated incidence, prevalence, and mortality by country: WHO Global Surveillance and Monitoring Project. JAMA 1999; 282:677-686
2. American Thoracic Society, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Infectious Diseases Society of America. American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America: treatment of tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003; 167:603-662
3. Hansel NN, Wu AW, Chang B, et al. Quality of life in tuberculosis: patient and provider perspectives. Qual Life Res 2004; 13:639-652
4. Rao VK, Iademarco EP, Fraser VJ, et al. The impact of comorbidity on mortality following in-hospital diagnosis of tuberculosis. Chest 1998; 114:1244-1252
5. Hansel NN, Merriman B, Diette GB. Hospitalized tuberculosis patients and predictors of mortality [abstract]. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:A18
6. Singleton L, Turner M, Haskal R, et al. Long-term hospitalization for tuberculosis control: experience with a medical-psychosocial inpatient unit. JAMA 1997; 278:865-867
7. Greenaway C, Menzies D, Fanning A, et al. Delay in diagnosis among hospitalized patients with active tuberculosis: predictors and outcomes. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:927-933
8. Brown RE, Miller B, Taylor WR, et al. Health-care expenditures for tuberculosis in the United States. Arch Intern Med 1995; 155:1595-1600
9. Taylor Z, Marks SM, Rios Burrows NM, et al. Causes and costs of hospitalization of tuberculosis patients in the United States. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2000; 4:931-939
10. Shulkin DJ, Brennan PJ. The cost of caring for patients with tuberculosis: planning for a disease on the rise. Am J Infect Control 1995; 23:1-4
11. Rosenblum LS, Castro KG, Dolley S, et al. Effect of HIV infection and tuberculosis on hospitalizations and cost of care for young adults in the United States, 1985 to 1990. Ann Intern Med 1994; 121:786-792
12. Charlson ME, Pompei P, Ales KL, et al. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation. J Chronic Dis 1987; 40:373-383
13. Deyo RA, Cherkin DC, Ciol MA. Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases. J Clin Epidemiol 1992; 45:613-619
14. Hosmer DWJ, Lemeshow S, Klar J. Goodness-of-fit testing for the logistic regression model when the estimated probabilities are small. Biom J 1998; 30:911-924
15. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tuberculosis morbidity among US-born and foreign-born populations: United States, 2000. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2002; 51:101-104
16. Grange J, Story A, Zumla A. Tuberculosis in the disadvantaged groups. Curr Opin Pulm Med 2001; 7:160-164
17. Cantwell MF, McKenna MT, McCray E, et al. Tuberculosis and race/ethnicity in the United States: impact of socioeconomic status. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1998; 157:1016-1020
18. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tuberculosis morbidity: United States 1995. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1996; 45:365-370
19. Patil SP, Krishnan JA, Lechtzin N, et al. In-hospital mortality following acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Arch Intern Med 2003; 163:1180-1186
20. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Clinical classifications for health policy research: hospital inpatient statistics, 1996; HCUP-3 research note, Summary, 2003. Washington, DC: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Publications Clearinghouse, 2003
21. Asch S, Leake B, Anderson R, et al. Why do symptomatic patients delay obtaining care for tuberculosis? Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1998; 157:1244-1248
22. Moulding T, Barnes P. Isoniazid for the tuberculin reactor: take it or leave it [letter]. Am Rev Respir Dis 1989; 138:489
23. Pablos-Mendez A, Sterling TR, Frieden TR. The relationship between delayed or incomplete treatment and all-cause mortality in patients with tuberculosis. JAMA 1996; 276:1223-1228
24. Alpert PL, Munsiff SS, Gourevitch MN, et al. A prospective study of tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus infection: clinical manifestations and factors associated with survival. Clin Infect Dis 1997; 24:661-668
25. National Center for Health Statistics. Health of an aging America: issues on data for policy analysis. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1988
26. Hamel MB, Lynn J, Teno JM, et al. Age-related differences in care preferences, treatment decisions, and clinical outcomes of seriously ill hospitalized adults: lessons from SUPPORT. J Am Geriatr Soc 2000; 48(suppl):S176-S182
27. Rosenthal GE, Kaboli PJ, Barnett MJ, et al. Age and the risk of in-hospital death: insights from a multihospital study of intensive care patients. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50:1205-1212
28. Leung CC, Yew WW, Chan CK, et al. Tuberculosis in older people: a retrospective and comparative study from Hong Kong. J Am Geriatr Soc 2002; 50:1219-1226
29. Perez-Guzman C, Vargas MH, Torres-Cruz A, et al. Does aging modify pulmonary tuberculosis? Chest 1999; 116:961-967
30. Pompei P, Charlson ME, Ales K, et al. Relating patient characteristics at the time of admission to outcomes of hospitalization. J Clin Epidemiol 1991; 44:1063-1069
31. Greenfield S, Aronow HU, Elashoff RM, et al. Flaws in mortality data: the hazards of ignoring comorbid disease. JAMA 1988; 260:2253-2255
32. Havranek EP, Abrams F, Stevens E, et al. Determinants of mortality in elderly patients with heart failure: the role of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors. Arch Intern Med 1998; 158:2024-2028
33. Kaplan V, Angus DC, Griffin MF, et al. Hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002; 165:766-772
34. Johnston JA, Wagner DP, Timmons S, et al. Impact of different measure of comorbid disease on predicted mortality of intensive care unit patients. Med Care 2002; 40:929-940
35. Braun MM, Cote TR, Rabkin CS. Trends in death with tuberculosis during the AIDS era. JAMA 1993; 269:2865-2868
36. Stoneburner R, Laroche E, Prevots R, et al. Survival in a cohort of human immunodeficiency virus-infected tuberculosis patients in New York City: implications for the expansion of the AIDS case definition. Arch Intern Med 1992; 152: 2033-2037
37. Shafer RW, Bloch AB, Larkin C, et al. Predictors of survival in HIV-infected tuberculosis patients. AIDS 1996; 10:269-272
38. Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trends toward tuberculosis elimination. Available at: www.cdc.go/nchstp/tb/worldtb2002/population.htm. Accessed September 22, 2004
39. Schneider EC, Zaslavsky AM, Epstein AM. Racial disparities in the quality of care for enrollees in Medicare managed care. JAMA 2002; 287:1288-1294
40. Kressin NR, Petersen LA. Racial differences in the use of invasive cardiovascular procedures: review of the literature and prescription for future research. Ann Intern Med 2001; 135:352-366
41. Lechtzin N, Wiener CM, Clawson L, et al. Hospitalization in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: causes, costs, and outcomes. Neurology 2001; 56:753-757
42. Bach PB, Cramer LD, Schrag D, et al. The influence of hospital volume on survival after resection for lung cancer. N Engl J Med 2001; 345:181-188
43. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Trends in tuberculosis morbidity: United States, 1992-2002. Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2003; 52:217-222