[Infection in elderly interned in long-term care facilities].
| Autor: | Villas Bôas PJ; Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Unesp, SP., Ferreira AL |
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| Jazyk: | portugalština |
| Zdroj: | Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) [Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992)] 2007 Mar-Apr; Vol. 53 (2), pp. 126-9. |
| DOI: | 10.1590/s0104-42302007000200016 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To evaluate the occurrence of infection in elderly interned in long-term care facilities (LTCF) during 13 consecutive months. Methods: Fifty five elderly were evaluated according to infection and, reporting was standardized. Results: The median age was 75 (66 81) years. The data set consisted of 20,896 patients-day (PD) of care during the period, with a total of 76 infections for a pooled mean rate of infections 3.20 per 1,000 PD of care. Patient infection rate was 63.6%. Prevalent topographies of infection were respiratory (50%), urinary tract (32%), skin and soft tissue (12%) and gastroenteritis (7%), with an infection rate for specific categories/1000 PD of 1.60, 1.01, 0.38, 0.21, respectively. Mortality infection rate was 5%. Microbiological agents were isolated in 30.5% of the infection episodes. Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus were prevalent. Conclusion: Infection presented an elevated incidence in the elderly interned, but no unusual problem with infections was disclosed. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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