Because of possible concerns about the influence of this patient heterogeneity on the results, COVID-19 etiology was entered as a variable in all the multivariate analyses but did not reach statistical significance.
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Malnutrition, Functional Decline, and Institutionalization in Older Adults after Hospital Discharge Following Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
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Institutionalized patients prior to admission were older and showed a trend toward greater dependency for basic ADL, but the other characteristics recorded at admission were similar.