ArticleLangenbeck's archives of surgery2025
Intussusception risk factors and outcomes in adult and elderly patients: analysis from the national inpatient sample.
Article in Langenbeck's archives of surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- Adult Colonic Intussusception: A Focused Review of Diagnostic and Management Strategies.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeIntussusception in adult and elderly patients is rare but potentially life-threatening, requiring high clinical suspicion for prompt diagnosis and management. This study aims to identify risk factors in these patients to improve management protocols and enhance clinician awareness.
methodsAdult and elderly patients with intussusception (2005–2014) from the National Inpatient Sample, which provided data on demographics, comorbidities, outcomes, and operative management were analyzed. Logistic regressions assessed the relationships between mortality and patient characteristics.
resultsAmong 4,432 patients, 82.3% were adults (57.1% females), and 17.7% were elderly (64.1% females). The elderly mortality rate was 2.8% versus 0.1% in adults. In non-operatively managed elderly patients, longer hospital length of stays (LOS) and older age increased mortality odds by 5.7% (P = 0.120) and 24.8% (P = 0.080). Operatively managed elderly patients with higher frailty scores had 34.0% greater mortality odds (P = 0.160), while female sex reduced odds by 69.8%. In operatively managed adults, each day of delayed surgery raised mortality odds by 26.7%, and each additional year of age increased odds by 21.0% (P = 0.053).
conclusionLonger hospital stays, advanced age, and higher frailty increase mortality risk in adult patients and elderly surgical patients. Female sex offers a protective effect. Non-operatively managed elderly patients are at high risk for mortality.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.