To evaluate the clinical characteristics of geriatric in-patients, medical records of 399 patients above 40years of age, discharged at Yong Dong Severance Hospital from April 11th 1988 to April 30th 1988 were reviewed. As a result of comparing the age group above 65 to 40-64, we could obtain following results.
1) The geriatric group had more tendencies to admit via emergency room than age group 40-64 and to have high blood pressure above 160/95 mmHg than age group 40-64 at the time of admission (P<0.005).
2) The geriatric group had more average number of diagnosis per person (P<0.005).
3) Infectious disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive lung disease, benign prostatic hypertrophy and cerbrovascular disease were more commonly involved in geriatric group (P< 0.01), and among the infectious disease, the urinary tract infection, pneumonia were developed more frequently in geriatric group than age group 40-64(P<0.05).
4) The rate of death or hopeless discharge was higher in the geriatric group than the age group 40-64(P<0.05)
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