Evaluation of MPI as a prognostic tool among the hospitalized elderly patients at Ain-Shams University hospital

Abstract

Background Hospitalization of the elderly patients carry greatest risk for complications and unfavorable outcomes, so better outcome requires a comprehensive geriatric assessment by multidisciplinary teams to detect the patients at higher risk for functional decline and institutionalization, such care and assessment have shown to reduce the hospital stay and functional decline, also increases the chances of living at home, one of this multi-dimentional management is the use of prognostic indices which predict the outcome of the admitted elderly patients, of which is MPI. The MPI showed good accuracy in estimating both short-and long-term mortality in hospitalized older patients with the most common conditions leading to death (Pilotto et al., 2012).