Elderly inpatients
Psychological treatment of depressive symptoms in Chinese elderly inpatients with significant medical comorbidity: A meta analysis
... Chinese elderly inpatients with significant medical ...of inpatients with significant medical comorbidity who suffer depres- sion go undetected and untreated ...older inpatients with ...
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Clinical effectiveness of grip strength in predicting ambulation of elderly inpatients
... Often, physical function assessment in these patients is very difficult because they do not understand the exploratory maneuvers due to cognitive impairment or confusion. So we need simple assessment tools to obtain ...
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Comparison of prognostic values of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T and N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide to assess mortality in elderly inpatients
... the elderly population lead to high risk of adverse clinical outcomes, such as ...in elderly patients hospitalized for medical conditions other than acute cardiovascular events were ...715 elderly ...
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Prevalence and characteristics of suicidal ideation among 2199 elderly inpatients with surgical or medical conditions in Taiwan
... ill elderly inpatients; (2) the predictive value of a PSM made up of three items of BSRS-5 on SI is better than that of a model using a single variable of BSRS total scores greater than 5 alone; this ...
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Predictors of improved functional outcome in elderly inpatients after rehabilitation: a retrospective study
... The present study had several limitations. First, because all patients of this series were assessed at our hospital, this study is inherently limited by single-center selection bias. Therefore, the results may not ...
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Relationship between high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T and the prognosis of elderly inpatients with non-acute coronary syndromes
... threshold. Elderly inpatients usually have more comorbidities and functional disorders; however, it is unclear whether the increased values of hs-cTnT are correlated with increased risk of death in ...
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Association between leptin and delirium in elderly inpatients
... In conclusion, leptin levels may have a role in the pathophysiological processes that lead to delirium in older patients, as this hormone is affected by a number of clinical conditions and has profound effects on central ...
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<p>Intestinal Microbiota in Elderly Inpatients with <em>Clostridioides difficile</em> Infection</p>
... in elderly hospitalized ...the elderly population than in young adults and death rates of CDI in patients over 80 years of age may exceed ...5,6 Elderly people are more common in hospitals and may be ...
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Comparison of two nutrition assessment tools in surgical elderly inpatients in Northern China
... It is noteworthy that malnutrition is consistently high in newly institutionalized elderly surgery patients. With MNA-SF, 64 patients (45 %) were evaluated as under- nourished. The NRS2002 indicated that 38 % ...
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Nosocomial bacteriuria in elderly inpatients may be leading to considerable antibiotic overuse: an audit of current management practice in a secondary level care hospital in New Zealand
... The most frequent cause of bacteriuria was E. coli. Mixed growth was also common, particularly in asymp- tomatic infection. This likely reflects anterior urethral and periurethral contamination, associated with frequent ...
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<p>The impact of frailty on prolonged hospitalization and mortality in elderly inpatients in Vietnam: a comparison between the frailty phenotype and the Reported Edmonton Frail Scale</p>
... Aims: To investigate the impact of frailty on outcomes in older hospitalized patients, including prolonged length of stay and all-cause mortality 6 months after admission, using both t[r] ...
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Prevalence and associated factors of depressive symptoms among elderly inpatients of a Chinese tertiary hospital
... biological and behavioral pathways in elderly patients. One limitation of our study is the adoption of the GDS scale, rather than structured interviews for diagnosing depression, to measure depressive symptom, ...
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Original Article Prevalence of non-thyroidal illness syndrome and 2-year survival in elderly male inpatients
... Many elderly inpatients are combined with several chronic ...the elderly male population, the nutri- tional status and kidney function in the NTIS group were ...
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Dementia specific risks of scabies: Retrospective epidemiologic analysis of an unveiled nosocomial outbreak in Japan from 1989–90
... the elderly differ from those in younger indi- viduals and such episodes are often the cause of nosoco- mial outbreaks because of delayed diagnosis due to the inspecificity of the lesions ...among elderly ...
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Potentially inappropriate medications in hospitalized older patients: a cross-sectional study using the Beers 2015 criteria versus the 2012 criteria
... The present study compared the prevalence of PIMs and their association with related factors between two versions of the Beers criteria in elderly inpatients in China. The major findings were as follows: 1) ...
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A PROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF ADVERSE DRUG REACTION IN GERIATRICS AT A TERTIARY LEVEL REFERRAL HOSPITAL IN KERALA
... by elderly increases the risk of adverse drug reactions causing increased morbidity and ...in elderly population with chronic ...the elderly will require more timely and accurate drug safety data and ...
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What Is The Economic Feasibility Of Implementing Grey Water Infrastructure At The Citywide Level?
... psychiatric inpatients, these five factors included in this tool were appropriate to be assessed in the psychiatric population (Abraham, 2016b, ...Falling Elderly Inpatients (STRATIFY) is an initial ...
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The Elderly Population in Vietnam during Economic Transformation: An Overview
... the elderly people, particularly elderly women, and familial relations will be more vulnerable to a variety of social and economic ...the elderly population in Vietnam in association with various ...
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Collaboration in caring for psychiatric inpatients
... Our current model has some limitations and potential shortcomings. Although the FP who provides most of this service often makes himself available by pager out- side his[r] ...
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Fried frailty phenotype assessment components as applied to geriatric inpatients
... In summary, we found that Fried frailty criteria are useful in geriatric inpatients, despite diagnostic limitations in a considerable proportion of this specific population. Frailty prevalence exceeded 50%, ...
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