Ophthalmic Surgical Elderly Patient Access To Health Care
Morressier, 2017
Online
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IntroductionAging is an omnipresent reality in surgical population. Elderlyu2019s access to health care demands specific strategies towards their autonomy.ObjectiveIdentify difficulties in access to health care of ophthalmic surgical elderly patients.Materials and MethodsProspective, descriptive/analytic study between July to October 2017. Sample: ophthalmic surgical patients with u226565 years. Telephone interview.Work instruments: Six Item Cognitive Impairment Test (CIT), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Hospital access questionnaire.Demographic variables: age, sex, residence, scholarship and family and domestic profile.Statistical analysis with SPSS, significant value with p10). Final sample n=307, majority women 51,1%, average age 75 years, with basic scholarship, married, living together in rural residence.Clinical profile: 80,5% without GDS score suggestive of depression; 76,2% are happy, 86,3% glad with their life, 92,5% donu2019t fell forsaken neither useless in 85,7%. 87,9% are autonomous in their roam.Regarding access thereu2019s an difficult (52,8%) and far (52,4%) parking lot, one small waiting room (61,9%) with few chairs (62,9%). Positively stands out the easiness in lift use (90,9%), the good route signalling (90,2%), health professional availability (84,7%) and quality and understanding of information given by those professionals (89,3%).Significant association between GDS and gender (p=0,009) and family profile (p
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Ophthalmic Surgical Elderly Patient Access To Health Care
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lanzaro, Camile |
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Veröffentlichung: | Morressier, 2017 |
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