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Defining Sickle Cell Disease Severity Among Adults Hospitalized with Vaso-Occlusive Crisis
Conclusions: The high severity scores among this cohort supports the validity of employing a medical history checklist as a measure of disease severity, reflecting the cumulative end organ damage due to SCD and near universal need for daily pain medication among patients requiring inpatient admission for VOC. Two-thirds of patients were categorized as having high disease severity, driven primarily by daily pain medication use prior to hospitalization and pulmonary complications, consistent with a known subgroup of adults with SCD-related complications who are more likely to have lower health-related quality of life and acc...
Source: Blood - November 21, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Esham, K. S., Rodday, A. M., Savidge, N., Mao, D., Weidner, R. A., Parsons, S. K. Tags: 903. Outcomes Research-Non-Malignant Hematology: Poster II Source Type: research
