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Characteristics of Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Who Were Injured and Transferred to Hospital Emergency Departments in Korea: A Retrospective Multicenter Study
The objective of this retrospective multicenter study was to investigate the mechanism and characteristics of trauma experienced by patients aged ≥65 years who were transferred from a long-term care hospital to one of five university hospital emergency departments. Of 255,543 patients seen in one of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7803184 |
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author | Namgung, Myeong Kim, Keon Lee, Dong Hoon Yune, Ho Young Wee, Jung Hee Kim, Duk Ho Kim, Eui Chung Lim, Jee Yong |
author_facet | Namgung, Myeong Kim, Keon Lee, Dong Hoon Yune, Ho Young Wee, Jung Hee Kim, Duk Ho Kim, Eui Chung Lim, Jee Yong |
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description | The objective of this retrospective multicenter study was to investigate the mechanism and characteristics of trauma experienced by patients aged ≥65 years who were transferred from a long-term care hospital to one of five university hospital emergency departments. Of 255,543 patients seen in one of the five emergency departments, 79 were transferred from a long-term care hospital because of trauma. The most common trauma mechanism was slipping down, with 33 (58.9%) patients, followed by falling from a bed (17.9%), striking an object such as a wall or corner (10.7%), overextending a joint (8.9%), and unknown mechanisms (3.6%). Many cases of slip (39.4%) occurred in relation to the bathroom. Comparing slip and fall from a bed, we found more hip fractures (95.2%) because of slipping down than falling from a bed (57.1%); traumatic brain injury only occurred in slip cases. These traumas cause significant morbidity in elderly patients; therefore, we sought to identify strategies that prevent slip in long-term care hospitals. |
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spelling | pubmed-65828572019-07-04 Characteristics of Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Who Were Injured and Transferred to Hospital Emergency Departments in Korea: A Retrospective Multicenter Study Namgung, Myeong Kim, Keon Lee, Dong Hoon Yune, Ho Young Wee, Jung Hee Kim, Duk Ho Kim, Eui Chung Lim, Jee Yong Emerg Med Int Research Article The objective of this retrospective multicenter study was to investigate the mechanism and characteristics of trauma experienced by patients aged ≥65 years who were transferred from a long-term care hospital to one of five university hospital emergency departments. Of 255,543 patients seen in one of the five emergency departments, 79 were transferred from a long-term care hospital because of trauma. The most common trauma mechanism was slipping down, with 33 (58.9%) patients, followed by falling from a bed (17.9%), striking an object such as a wall or corner (10.7%), overextending a joint (8.9%), and unknown mechanisms (3.6%). Many cases of slip (39.4%) occurred in relation to the bathroom. Comparing slip and fall from a bed, we found more hip fractures (95.2%) because of slipping down than falling from a bed (57.1%); traumatic brain injury only occurred in slip cases. These traumas cause significant morbidity in elderly patients; therefore, we sought to identify strategies that prevent slip in long-term care hospitals. Hindawi 2019-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6582857/ /pubmed/31275655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7803184 Text en Copyright © 2019 Myeong Namgung et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Namgung, Myeong Kim, Keon Lee, Dong Hoon Yune, Ho Young Wee, Jung Hee Kim, Duk Ho Kim, Eui Chung Lim, Jee Yong Characteristics of Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Who Were Injured and Transferred to Hospital Emergency Departments in Korea: A Retrospective Multicenter Study |
title | Characteristics of Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Who Were Injured and Transferred to Hospital Emergency Departments in Korea: A Retrospective Multicenter Study |
title_full | Characteristics of Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Who Were Injured and Transferred to Hospital Emergency Departments in Korea: A Retrospective Multicenter Study |
title_fullStr | Characteristics of Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Who Were Injured and Transferred to Hospital Emergency Departments in Korea: A Retrospective Multicenter Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics of Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Who Were Injured and Transferred to Hospital Emergency Departments in Korea: A Retrospective Multicenter Study |
title_short | Characteristics of Elderly Long-Term Care Residents Who Were Injured and Transferred to Hospital Emergency Departments in Korea: A Retrospective Multicenter Study |
title_sort | characteristics of elderly long-term care residents who were injured and transferred to hospital emergency departments in korea: a retrospective multicenter study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31275655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7803184 |
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