FLAVIA BARRETO GARCEZ CARVALHO
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LIM/66, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Delirium and Adverse Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients withCOVID-19(2020) GARCEZ, Flavia B.; ALIBERTI, Marlon J. R.; POCO, Paula C. E.; HIRATSUKA, Marcel; TAKAHASHI, Silvia de F.; COELHO, Venceslau A.; SALOTTO, Danute B.; V, Marlos L. Moreira; JACOB-FILHO, Wilson; AVELINO-SILVA, Thiago J.BACKGROUND Little is known about the association between acute mental changes and adverse outcomes in hospitalized adults with COVID-19. OBJECTIVES To investigate the occurrence of delirium in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and explore its association with adverse outcomes. DESIGN Longitudinal observational study. SETTING Tertiary university hospital dedicated to the care of severe cases of COVID-19 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. PARTICIPANTS A total of 707 patients, aged 50 years or older, consecutively admitted to the hospital between March and May 2020. MEASUREMENTS We completed detailed reviews of electronic medical records to collect our data. We identified delirium occurrence using the Chart-Based Delirium Identification Instrument (CHART-DEL). Trained physicians with a background in geriatric medicine completed all CHART-DEL assessments. We complemented our baseline clinical information using telephone interviews with participants or their proxy. Our outcomes of interest were in-hospital death, length of stay, admission to intensive care, and ventilator utilization. We adjusted all multivariable analyses for age, sex, clinical history, vital signs, and relevant laboratory biomarkers (lymphocyte count, C-reactive protein, glomerular filtration rate, D-dimer, and albumin). RESULTS Overall, we identified delirium in 234 participants (33%). On admission, 86 (12%) were delirious. We observed 273 deaths (39%) in our sample, and in-hospital mortality reached 55% in patients who experienced delirium. Delirium was associated with in-hospital death, with an adjusted odds ratio of 1.75 (95% confidence interval = 1.15-2.66); the association held both in middle-aged and older adults. Delirium was also associated with increased length of stay, admission to intensive care, and ventilator utilization. CONCLUSION Delirium was independently associated with in-hospital death in adults aged 50 years and older with COVID-19. Despite the difficulties for patient care during the pandemic, clinicians should routinely monitor delirium when assessing severity and prognosis of COVID-19 patients.
- COVID-19 is not over and age is not enough: Using frailty for prognostication in hospitalized patients(2021) ALIBERTI, Marlon Juliano Romero; SZLEJF, Claudia; AVELINO-SILVA, Vivian I.; SUEMOTO, Claudia Kimie; APOLINARIO, Daniel; DIAS, Murilo Bacchini; GARCEZ, Flavia Barreto; TRINDADE, Carolina B.; AMARAL, Jose Renato das Gracas; MELO, Leonardo Rabelo de; AGUIAR, Renata Cunha de; COELHO, Paulo Henrique Lazzaris; HOJAIJ, Naira Hossepian Salles de Lima; SARAIVA, Marcos Daniel; SILVA, Natalia Oliveira Trajano da; JACOB-FILHO, Wilson; AVELINO-SILVA, Thiago J.Background Frailty screening using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) has been proposed to guide resource allocation in acute care settings during the pandemic. However, the association between frailty and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prognosis remains unclear. Objectives To investigate the association between frailty and mortality over 6 months in middle-aged and older patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and the association between acute morbidity severity and mortality across frailty strata. Design Observational cohort study. Setting Large academic medical center in Brazil. Participants A total of 1830 patients aged >= 50 years hospitalized with COVID-19 (March-July 2020). Measurements We screened baseline frailty using the CFS (1-9) and classified patients as fit to managing well (1-3), vulnerable (4), mildly (5), moderately (6), or severely frail to terminally ill (7-9). We also computed a frailty index (0-1; frail >0.25), a well-known frailty measure. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate the association between frailty and time to death within 30 days and 6 months of admission. We also examined whether frailty identified different mortality risk levels within strata of similar age and acute morbidity as measured by the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score. Results Median age was 66 years, 58% were male, and 27% were frail to some degree. Compared with fit-to-managing-well patients, the adjusted hazard ratios (95% confidence interval [CI]) for 30-day and 6-month mortality were, respectively, 1.4 (1.1-1.7) and 1.4 (1.1-1.7) for vulnerable patients; 1.5 (1.1-1.9) and 1.5 (1.1-1.8) for mild frailty; 1.8 (1.4-2.3) and 1.9 (1.5-2.4) for moderate frailty; and 2.1 (1.6-2.7) and 2.3 (1.8-2.9) for severe frailty to terminally ill. The CFS achieved outstanding accuracy to identify frailty compared with the Frailty Index (area under the curve = 0.94; 95% CI = 0.93-0.95) and predicted different mortality risks within age and acute morbidity groups. Conclusions Our results encourage the use of frailty, alongside measures of acute morbidity, to guide clinicians in prognostication and resource allocation in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
- Patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic: do not leave delirium behind(2021) CASTRO, Roberta E. Vieira de; GARCEZ, Flavia B.; AVELINO-SILVA, Thiago J.
- Finding the Goldilocks zone: Effects of ambient temperature on mortality of hospitalized older adults(2023) AVELINO-SILVA, Thiago J.; GARCEZ, Flavia Barreto; CAMPORA, Flavia; CURIATI, Jose A. E.; JACOB-FILHO, Wilson
- Part of a great team: Perceptions of geriatrics fellows on doing research during a pandemic(2021) BERJEAUT, Eugenia Jatene Bou Khazaal; CARVALHO, Bruna Macedo de; ALIBERTI, Marlon Juliano Romero; AVELINO-SILVA, Thiago J.; CAMPORA, Flavia; JACOB-FILHO, Wilson; GARCEZ, Flavia Barreto
- A fuller picture of COVID-19 prognosis: the added value of vulnerability measures to predict mortality in hospitalised older adults(2021) ALIBERTI, Marlon Juliano Romero; COVINSKY, Kenneth E.; GARCEZ, Flavia Barreto; SMITH, Alexander K.; CURIATI, Pedro Kallas; LEE, Sei J.; DIAS, Murilo Bacchini; MELO, Victor Jose Dornelas; REGO-JUNIOR, Otavio Fortes Do; RICHINHO, Valeria de Paula; JACOB-FILHO, Wilson; AVELINO-SILVA, Thiago J.Background: Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disproportionally affects older adults, the use of conventional triage tools in acute care settings ignores the key aspects of vulnerability. Objective: This study aimed to determine the usefulness of adding a rapid vulnerability screening to an illness acuity tool to predict mortality in hospitalised COVID-19 patients. Design: Cohort study. Setting: Large university hospital dedicated to providing COVID-19 care. Participants: Participants included are 1,428 consecutive inpatients aged =50 years. Methods: Vulnerability was assessed using the modified version of PRO-AGE score (0-7; higher = worse), a validated and easy-to-administer tool that rates physical impairment, recent hospitalisation, acute mental change, weight loss and fatigue. The baseline covariates included age, sex, Charlson comorbidity score and the National Early Warning Score (NEWS), a well-known illness acuity tool. Our outcome was time-to-death within 60 days of admission. Results: The patients had a median age of 66 years, and 58% were male. The incidence of 60-day mortality ranged from 22% to 69% across the quartiles of modified PRO-AGE. In adjusted analysis, compared with modified PRO-AGE scores 0-1 ('lowest quartile'), the hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) for 60-day mortality for modified PRO-AGE scores 2-3, 4 and 5-7 were 1.4 (1.1-1.9), 2.0 (1.5-2.7) and 2.8 (2.1-3.8), respectively. The modified PRO-AGE predicted different mortality risk levels within each stratum of NEWS and improved the discrimination of mortality prediction models. Conclusions: Adding vulnerability to illness acuity improved accuracy of predicting mortality in hospitalised COVID-19 patients. Combining tools such as PRO-AGE and NEWS may help stratify the risk of mortality from COVID-19.