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- Title
PROFILE OF OLDER ADULT VICTIMS OF TRAUMA CARED FOR IN THE EMERGENCY CARE UNIT OF A TEACHING.
- Authors
Fernandes da Silva, Nayara Tedeschi; de Cassia Helú Mendonça Ribeiro, Rita; Galisteu, Kátia Jaira; Cesarino, Claudia Bernardi; Pinto, Maria Helena; Beccaria, Lúcia Marinilza
- Abstract
This study analyzed the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of older adult victims of trauma cared for in the emergency care unit of a teaching hospital. Method descriptive study with a quantitative approach performed in a reference emergency service, through the assessment of 2,113 electronic medical records of 2014 and 2015. The Chi-square test, Student t-test, and Spearman's correlation coefficients with 5% significance level were used for the statistical analysis. The majority of the older adults were female, aged between 60 and 80 years, white, with incomplete primary education, married, and housewives. The main medical specialties were orthopedics/traumatology and general surgery, and the most frequent diagnoses were unspecified traumas, followed by upper-and lower-limb fractures and femoral fractures. The prevalent clinical outcome was hospitalization in a specific sector of orthopedics and traumatology. There was an association between the types of trauma and the age of each older adult, and between the types of trauma and sex, with prevalence of female older adults. Therefore, nursing should intervene in the prevention of trauma in older adults with special attention to old aged women.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; WOUND nursing; ACADEMIC medical centers; AGE distribution; CHI-squared test; EMERGENCY medical services; MARITAL status; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENT education; RACE; SEX distribution; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); VICTIM psychology; DATA analysis; QUANTITATIVE research; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; OLD age
- Publication
Ciencia, Cuidado e Saude, 2018, Vol 17, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1677-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v17i2.42045