An芍lisis de la mortalidad en ancianos en un Servicio de Medicina Interna

作者：Cinza Sanjurjo; S; Cabarcos Ortiz de Barron; A; Nieto Pol; E; Torre Carballada; J A

来源：Anales de Medicina Interna, 2007.

DOI：10.4321/S0212-71992007000200004

• hospital mortality
• aged
• internal medicine.

backgroud: to establish the characteristics of the deceased and the death causes. methodology: transversal study descriptive, with intake patients elder than 65 years old in an internal medicine department. the variables analized were: age, sex, intake date, discharge date, days of hospital stay, chronic disease previous, admission cause, deceased, diagnoses. the statistical analysis was performed with measures of central tendency and of standard deviation, chi-cuadrado, mann-whitney-wilcoxon and kruskal-wallis. results: during the revised year, there are 770 patients intaked in internal medicine department and 128 exitus (16.6%). the global average death age was 78.3 ㊣ 1.3 years: 53.1% (0.44-0.62; p = 0.48) were men and 46.9% were women. the average death intake days was 13.3 ㊣ 1.7 days (p %26lt; 0.001), 3.9% died in less than forty-eight hours after hospitalization. the most frequent admission cause was: dyspnea (46.1%). the most frequent chronic diseases were: ischemic and hypertensive heart disease (18.8%) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. the most frequent death cause was respiratory tract infection (43.8%). conclusions: the prevalence cardiac and pulmonary disease prevalence is high, these diseases are the of the most frequent causes hospital mortality.