Emergence room assistance: profile of patients with sequelae after hospital discharge

• Autor(a) principal: Schneider, Daniela da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Lima, Regiane, Souza, Danielly Lanziotti de, Figueiredo, Maria Renita Burg, Caregnato, Rita Catalina Aquino
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Reme (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/50075
• topic: Patients; Hospital Discharge; Statistics on Sequelae and Disability; Prevalence; Pacientes; Alta Hospitalaria; Estadísticas de Secuelas y Discapacidad; Prevalencia; Pacientes; Alta Hospitalar; Estatísticas de Sequelas e Incapacidade; Prevalência

This study aimed to assess the prevalence of patients discharged from the hospital into the community with sequelae or special needs requiring follow-up care after the discharge. This was a retrospective prevalence study conducted in an emergency hospital focused on the records of 1,794 hospital discharges occurred between January and March of 2014. The sample consisted of 19 discharge records of patients who presented sequelae or disability, representing 1.6% of the 1,180 discharges that took place in the community. Results showed 84.2% of male patients; mean age of 37.6 years and with diverse sequelae such as: motor 68.3% (n = 13); motor and neurological 5.3% (n = 1); neurological 15.8% (n = 8); pulmonary 5.3% (n = 1); and metabolic 5.3% (n = 1). Although the identified prevalence of patients with sequelae or special needs in the sample was low, this number is signficant when it is verfied that 73.9% of patients were aged between 10 and 49 years representing young people at their potential productive ages.