Abstract

ESCOBEDO ROMERO, Rosario; IZQUIERDO FERNANDEZ, María Natividad  and  BELZUNEGUI OTANO, Tomás. El deterioro funcional y la polifarmacia como predictoras de riesgo en el paciente mayor de 65 años en urgencias. Ene. [online]. 2017, vol.11, n.2. ISSN 1988-348X.

Objective. The objective was to analyze the relationship between functional decline and polypharmacy of elderly patients; and also the correlation between the number of emergency visits and hospitalization over the last year and the mortality, frequency of emergency visits and hospitalizations among the 3 following months in order to determinate any standard who allow to detect frail elderly patients in Emergency department (ED). Method: Descriptiv study over 83 elderly patients, over 65 year admitted in ED. Hypothesis test were made in order to find the relationship between variables and outcomes. Conclusions: Functional decline and age are short-term predictors of mortality in over 65 years old patients admitted in Emergency service. Polypharmacy can increase mortality risk, readmission and hospitalization in a short-term, but it is necessary more studies with a bigger sample of patients and more than 10 prescriptions.

Keywords : Frail Elderly; Polypharmacy; Emergency Medical Services; Barthel Index; Mortality.