Aitor Alquézar-Arbé, Gina I Osorio, Javier Jacob, Eric Jorge García-Lamberechts, Pascual Piñera Salmerón, Pere Llorens, Guillermo Burillo-Putze, Angela Cobos Requena, Adriana Gil, Cesáreo Fernández, Sira Aguiló, Sònia Jiménez, Beatriz Escudero Blázquez, Diana Rosendo Mesino, Enrique Martín Mojarro, Aarati Vaswani-Bulchand, Montserrat Rodríguez-Cabrera, Pedro Alarcón Martínez, Gema Dominguez Gioya, Francesc Xavier Alemany González, Matilde González Tejera, María Bóveda García, Begoña Espinosa Fernández, Ferran Llopis, Coral Suero Méndez, Juan González Del Castillo, Òscar Miró
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the type of household is associated with prognosis at one year in patients ≥65 years of age discharged after medical consultation requiring emergency department care. METHODS: Data from the Emergency Department and Elder Needs (EDEN) cohort were used. This retrospective cohort included all patients ≥65 years of age seen in 52 Spanish emergency departments over one week (April 1-7, 2019) in whom the type of household was recorded and categorized as living at home alone, with relatives, with professional caregivers, or in a nursing home...
September 22, 2023: Maturitas