medicine wards.Results: The total number of patients admitted to the internal medicine intensive care unit during the study period was 357, of whom 171(47.99%) were aged above 65 years, a mean age of 74 +/- 6.6 years without any statistically significant difference between gender (P = ...
4Research group iHuman, NHL University for Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, thenbsp;NetherlandsPurpose: The main aim of our research was to evaluate general health, functioning, and performance parameters, as well as care problems of Geriatric Clinic inpatients in relation to deficits in fulfilling needs...
Geriatric patients' characteristics may well account for some of the results encountered. However, the development of resistance in the center may be related... V Faus Felipe,R Andreu Lafuente,JF Peris Martí,... - Farm Hosp 被引量: 2发表: 2003年 ...
No significant differences were found for any of the secondary outcomes. Conclusions This specialist geriatric medical intervention applied to an at risk population of older people attending and being discharged from acute medical units had no effect on patients' outcomes or subsequent use of secondary...
BACKGROUND: The majority of patients with gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies are older. Recently, it has become evident that elements from a geriatric assessment (GA) are powerful predictors of outcomes such as postoperative morbidity and mortality, length of stay, type of treatment received, and su...
Text: Background: Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT) has proven to increase survival in elderly patients (p) with unresectable stage III NSCLC, but it is not yet accepted as standard of care. The geriatric assessment (GA) might help to characterize p who benefit from cCRT. Methods: Elderly p...
Eligible participants were 65+ years with a new diagnosis of a malignant neoplasm under evaluation for cancer therapy. Before starting therapy, patients completed: baseline GA, SupportScreen, and the Fulmer SPICES assessment. A geriatric nurse practitioner (GNP) reviewed GA results and implemented ...
Impact of Nutritional Status on Morbidity in a Population of Geriatric Rehabilitation Patients Objective : The primary objective was to confirm the results of a prior study that demonstrated a strong independent correlation between the severity of pr... DH Sullivan,RC Walls - 《Journal of the ...
A geriatric assessment and intervention team for hospital inpatients awaiting transfer to a geriatric unit: A randomized trial The objective of this study, designed as a randomized controlled trial, was to decrease the length- of- stay (LOS) of hospitalized patients on a waiting li... M Germain...
nutritional support to prevent protein-calorie malnutrition, iron and fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies, and further revision in some patients to correct ... HJ Sugerman,JM Kellum,EJ Demaria - 《Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery》 被引量: 253发表: 1997年 Nutrition after stroke Nutritional SupportEt...