Elderly patients in a general surgical unit: do they block beds?
Elderly patients in a general surgical unit: do they block beds?
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普通外科的老年患者：他们会占床吗？
DOI：
10.1136/bmj.285.6345.892-c
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发表时间：
1982
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通讯作者：
R. Pringle
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作者：
D. Seymour;R. Pringle
在一项针对65岁及以上普通外科住院患者的前瞻性研究中，只有十分之一的患者住院时间超过一个月，而每一百名患者中只有不到一名患者成为了床位障碍者。虽然65岁以上患者的平均和中位数住院时间比年轻患者长，但在几乎所有病例中，长时间住院都是术后发病率所致，与社会或行政因素无关。只有减少术后发病率，才能显著节省老年人的卧床天数。
In a prospective study of patients aged 65 years and over admitted to a general surgical unit only one patient in 10 remained in hospital for more than a month and fewer than one patient in a hundred became a "bed-blocker." While the over-65s had mean and median durations of stay which were longer than those of younger patients, in almost all cases a prolonged stay in hospital resulted from postoperative morbidity and was not related to social or administrative factors. Only a reduction in the incidence of postoperative morbidity could achieve a significant saving in the number of bed-days occupied by elderly people.