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- Title
PROFILE OF PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS IN THE EMERGENCY UNIT OF A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL.
- Authors
Aparecida Martins, Tatiane; Benedita dos Santos, Claudia; dos Santos, Manoel Antônio; Luchetti Rodrigues, Flávia Fernanda; Pedersoli, Cesar Eduardo; Zanetti, Maria Lúcia
- Abstract
This cross-sectional study aimed to identify the profile of patients with diabetes mellitus cared for by the Emergency Room of a university hospital in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2009. The probabilistic sample was composed of 247 patients. A structured form addressing sociodemographic and clinical variables and those related to nursing orientation provided at discharge was used to collect data. The results show that patients admitted to the unit were predominantly women (53.4%), Caucasian (79.8%), with a low educational level (76.6%), and aged between 58 and 77 years old (50.2%); 62 years old on average with a standard deviation of 15.3 years. Regarding demand for care, the most prevalent diagnoses were cardiovascular (22.3%) and cerebrovascular (13%) conditions. Diabetes was considered the secondary reason for being admitted to the service, while the primary reason was related only to the patients' main complaints. The length of hospitalization was four days on average, with a median of nine days and a standard deviation of 21.7 days. The nursing orientations recorded in the discharge records were restricted to return visits. Cooperation between primary healthcare and hospital networks needs to be improved to decrease avoidable demand of patients with diabetes for the emergency room.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ACADEMIC medical centers; DEMOGRAPHY; PEOPLE with diabetes; EMERGENCY nursing; HOSPITAL emergency services; STATISTICAL sampling; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Ciencia, Cuidado e Saude, 2016, Vol 15, Issue 2, p312
- ISSN
1677-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v15i2.28272