The growing impact of older patients in the emergency department: a 5-year retrospective analysis in Brazil.

BMC Emergency Medicine
João Carlos Pereira GomesWilson Jacob Filho

Abstract

The average age of the global population is rising at an increasing rate. There is a disproportional increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits by older people worldwide. In the Brazilian health system, complex and severely ill patients and those requiring specialized urgent procedures are referred to tertiary level care. As far as we know, no other study in Latin America has analyzed the impact of demographic changes in tertiary ED attendance. To describe the sociodemographic characteristics and outcomes of tertiary Brazilian ED users. Design: Observational cross-sectional analytic study. Emergency Department, tertiary university hospital, São Paulo, Brazil. patients aged 18 years or older attending a tertiary ED (2009-2013). The primary outcomes were hospitalization and mortality; the secondary outcome was ICU admission. Age was categorized as 'young adults' (18-39y), 'adults' (40-59y), 'young-older adults' (60-79y), and 'old-older adults' (80-109y). Other variables included sex, reason for attendance, time of ED visit, mode of presentation, type of hospitalization, main procedure, length of hospital stay (LOS) and length of ICU stay (ICU-LOS). We calculated descriptive statistics, built generalized linear mixed models for ...Continue Reading

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