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- Title
Acil Servise Ambulans İle Müracaat Eden Geriatrik Olguların Analizi.
- Authors
KALDIRIM, Ümit; TUNCER, Salim Kemal; ARDIÇ, Şükrü; TEZEL, Onur; EYİ, Yusuf Emrah; ARZIMAN, İbrahim; DURUSU, Murat; YILDIRIM, Ali Osman; EROĞLU, Murat
- Abstract
Objectives The volume of elderly patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) has been increasing. Many times elderly patients are conveyed to the ED via the ambulance. In this study, we aimed to analyze how many elderly patients presented to the ED via the ambulance. Methods In this descriptive and retrospective study, collected data of elderly patients presenting to emergency department encompasses patient report forms of ambulance, charts, data belongs to patient in the hospital data system. These data were compared to data of elderly patients admitted by themselves including length of stay, discharge status and rate of hospitalization. Results Over a one-year period 93,609 patients were admitted to the emergency department and 19.02% of them were considered elderly or over the age of 66.0 years. Out of the elderly patients that presented to the ED, 5.58% of were transported by ambulance. For all ambulance runs made to the ED, 37.45% of them conveyed elderly patients, and 27.26% of these patients were hospitalized. Length of hospital stay was significantly longer for elderly patients that were transported via the ambulance versus elderly patients that transported themselves to the ED (p⩽0.001). Conclusions Shortness of breath was the most common complaint observed for all elderly patients that presented to the ED. The duration of ED length of stay for elderly patients transported by the ambulance was shorter than that of their counterparts that were not taken by ambulance. However, the length of hospital stay for elderly patients that were conveyed to the ED by ambulance was longer than that for elderly patients that transported themselves to the hospital.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medical services; GRAPHIC methods; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; HOSPITAL care; COMPUTER networks
- Publication
Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 4, p161
- ISSN
1304-7361
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5505/1304.7361.2013.35651