Valor pronóstico de los instrumentos de evaluación de enfermedad avanzada y de final de vida en ancianos ingresados en un centro sociosanitario
| Autor: | María Dolores Sánchez-Rodríguez, Elizabeth da Costa, Ramón Miralles, Olga Vázquez-Ibar, María José Robles |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty Palliative care business.industry Concordance Area under the curve Medicine (miscellaneous) Charlson index 010501 environmental sciences medicine.disease 01 natural sciences Comorbidity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Advanced disease Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Geriatrics and Gerontology business Intermediate care Very high risk 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología. 53:77-80 |
| ISSN: | 0211-139X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.regg.2017.06.011 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE To apply 3advanced chronic disease evaluation tools in elderly patients admitted to an intermediate and long-term care centre, and evaluate its relationship with mortality. METHODS The NECPAL tool, PROFUND prognostic index, and Charlson comorbidity index were applied to 87 patients. RESULTS The NECPAL tool identified 31 patients (35.6%) in need of palliative care, and according to the PROFUND index, 45 (54.7%) had high/very high risk of mortality (≥7 points), and according to Charlson index, 31 (35.6%) had high comorbidity (≥4 points). Of the NECPAL positive patients, 80.5% had a PROFUND index score ≥7, and 48.3% a Charlson index ≥ 4. These percentages were 34.4% and 28.5% in negative NECPAL patients (P |
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