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KMID : 0377619930580090573
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1993 Volume.58 No. 9 p.573 ~ p.583
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The Evaluation of Activity of Daily Living for Elderly Patients Admitted in Three General Hospitals
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to investigate the evaluation of activity of daily living for elderly patients admitted in three general hospitals in Taejon from Nov. 1990 to Jan. 1991. The number of study subjects were 260 persons.
The contents of questionnaires were general characteristics of subjects: sex, age, education, marital status, family size, kinds of diseases; (IDC classification), status of hospitalization, ADL (Activity of daily living), length of hospital days and discharged status of inpatients etc.
The results were as follow:
1. In both sex, hospitalized distribution of the elderly inpatients was higher in internal Medicine departments than Minor departments.
2. By sex, distribution of Neoplasms, Cerebrovasular disease, disease of the respiratory system and disease of the genitourinary system were higher in male compared to female, but disease of heart disease, musculoskeletal disease, disease of the digestive system, metabolic disorder and disease of the nervous system and sense organ were higher in female than male.
3. By all group, there was a clear differences among each age groups, but musculoskeletal disease, disease of the digestive system and cerebrovascular disease were higher than other diseases.
4. By ADL scores, There was more decrease in order age group, female group, No spouse group and No occupation group.
By department of hospitalized, the ADL was high scores in Minor departments and department of General surgery, internal medicine and others were lower scores.
By disease groups, ADL score was highest in disease of the nervous system and sense organs group and lowest in cerebrovascular disease group.
5. Mean length of hospital days were 23.4 days and there was the longest days in musculoskeletal disease but the shortest days in disease of the nervous system and sense organs. 6. By the status of discharge, improve was 53.1 % and unimproved 21.5 %, there was significantly different between status of discharge and each disease group.
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