Characteristics of the Spanish Older People in the Use of Accidents and Emergency Unit Services (2014-2017)

Pablo J. López-Soto, Ignacio Morales-Cané, Fabio Fabbian, Roberto Manfredini, Caridad Dios-Guerra, Juan Manuel Carmona-Torres and María Aurora Rodríguez-Borrego

Clinical Nursing Research, 2021, vol. 30, issue 4, 406-414

Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine which factors are related to Accidents and Emergency Unit (AEU) use by the elderly Spanish population. Observational analysis of the 2014 European Survey of Health in Spain (ESHS-2014; N = 6,520) and the 2017 Spanish Health Survey (SHS-2017; N = 7,024) was employed. About one third (4,095, 30.2%) of the sample used the AEU, and they were primarily women (32.6%). Comorbidity ( p = .01), presence of physical limitation in the prior 6 months to the survey, and a history of several diseases ( p

Keywords: accident and emergency unit; emergency department visit; aged; predictors; community health nursing practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1054773819843627

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