Benefits of a vesicle re-education program on elderly hospitalized patients

Autor: Silvia del Rey Contreras, Montserrat García González, Mª Luisa Rodriguez de Prada, Juan José Baztán Cortés
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: NURE Investigación, Vol 4, Iss 28 (2007)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1697-218X
Popis: Urinary incontinence is a geriatric syndrome of high prevalence in elderly people, which very frequently is not diagnosed and many times appears when suffering a sharp incapacitate Pathology.The aim of the research is to discover the response to the treatment of vesicle re-education in patients with various pathologies and to observe if the benefit is permanent.A group of 372 patients of the “Middle-Stay Unit” of the Red Cross Hospital were evaluated from October 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002 using objective instruments of physical and mental evaluation. The results showed that the prevalence of the incontinence at patients’ admission was very high and the vesicle re-education was proved to be very effective since the continence was recovered in a significant number of patients permanently.
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