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From: Pre-kidney transplant lower extremity impairment and transplant length of stay: a time-to-discharge analysis of a prospective cohort study

Fig. 2

a Relative Hazard (HR) of length of stay (LOS) over time, comparing kidney transplant (KT) recipients who are Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) impaired versus those who are not. The SPPB-impaired group has a significantly lower hazard of discharge compared to the unimpaired group until around day 21, when there is no longer a significant difference between the hazards of the two groups. b The number of days longer that SPPB impaired kidney transplant recipients needed to reach the same percentage discharged as the SPPB unimpaired recipients. Patients who are SPPB-impaired stay in the hospital longer regardless of the percentage of patients discharged in each group. The time to reach 50% discharge was 2 days longer in the impaired group. Lower extremity impairment was defined as an SPPB score ≤ 10

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BMC Geriatrics

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