Evaluation of the clinical characteristics and risk factors for in-hospital mortality amongst older persons admitted with bacteraemia in a geriatric ward - a single tertiary centre review.

BMC Geriatr · 2026 · PMC13078083 · PMID 41749141

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Although survival differences did not reach statistical significance, patients who did not fulfil SIRS criteria demonstrated a trend toward poorer survival, indicating that apparent physiological “normality” at presentation may reflect blunted host responses rather than clinical stability.

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