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Filter by:Our research aims to examine the effect of the serenity therapy on symptoms distress, coping styles, and emotional regulation among geriatric patients undergoing hemodialysis. This study highlights the following question: what is the effect of the serenity therapy on symptoms distress, coping styles, and emotional regulation among geriatric patients undergoing hemodialysis.
General anesthesia is frequently used in daily clinical practice. Elderly patients often require a higher level of care than younger patients during the perioperative period, with higher health care costs. Strategies to optimize anesthesia care to reduce complications and improve outcomes in elderly surgical patients will also be of great value to the individual patients and society.
This study is a randomized controlled experimental research with pretest-posttest control group. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the training prepared in line with the fracture liaison service model on the level of frailty, care dependency and fear of movement in patients undergoing hip surgery. The main questions it aims to answer are as follows: - Does the training provided to patients undergoing hip surgery in line with the fracture liaison service model have an effect on the level of frailty of patients? - Does the training provided to patients undergoing hip surgery in line with the fracture liaison service model have an effect on patients' care dependency? - Does the education given to patients undergoing hip surgery in line with the fracture liaison service model have an effect on patients' fear of movement? It is very important to prevent secondary fractures that may occur in patients undergoing hip surgery. Therefore, the most appropriate prevention interventions to reduce fractures in patients depend on the risk profile and the place of education for hospitalized patients is very important. In this study, Personal Information Collection Form, Patient Follow-up Form, Edmonton Frailty Scale, Causes of Kinesiophobia Scale and Care Dependency Scale will be applied to control and intervention group patients. It is planned to provide training to the intervention group patients in line with the fracture liaison service model. This study will evaluate the effect of the training on patients' level of frailty, care dependency and fear of movement.
Geriatric presentations to emergency services comprise a significant percentage of all emergency service presentations in Europe and it has been reported that 3-23% of all emergency service presentations from various regions of the countries. There are specific management practices for patients who are 65 years and older at emergency services. On the other hand several risk-scoring systems have been developed to define the severity class of the patient during their initial evaluation at emergency services.Only a few studies in the literature have evaluated risk-scoring systems for the geriatric patient group.Several studies have reported that risk-scoring systems, such as Identification of Seniors at Risk and Triage Risk Screening Tool, which are specifically developed for geriatric patients over 65 years who present to emergency services, are not sufficiently effective for evaluating patients in more severe conditions. Previously the TEDGeS (Turkish Emergency Departments Geriatric Scoring Study) pilot study was carried out and published by some of the investigators of this project.This pilot study enrolled all geriatric patients (age ≥ 65 years) and carried out in 13 centers from different cities of Turkey. This pilot study showed that geriatric patients not only constitute significant proportion of emergency department presentations but also these patients need more hospitalization. The predictive powers of the Modified Early Warning Score, Rapid Emergency Medicine Score and The Vital PAC Early Warning Score for hospitalization and mortality in geriatric patients those presented to emergency department are significantly high and might be concerned in the emergency department triage of these patients. Within the light of these pilot study results, the investigators have decided to execute this prospective, multinational, multicentric study with the main objective to determine the epidemiological and age related characteristics of geriatric patients presenting to the emergency department across Europe and evaluate early warning scoring systems systems regarding hospitalization, ICU admission and in-hospital mortality for geriatric patients.
Malnutrition affects until 70% of the patients hospitalized in geriatric's units and constitutes an independent risk factor of morbidity and mortality. Malnutrition is also associated with increased length of stay and increased costs, and alters the quality of life. Oral nutritional supplements (ONS) play a key role in the prevention and treatment of malnutrition in older people. ONS are a simple way to offer in a small volume a nutritional supply with a high density of calorie and protein. The clinical efficiency of ONS is well demonstrated whether on nutritional parameters or on clinical outcomes. However, acceptability and consumption of these ONS are frequently suboptimal: in geriatrics, only 50% to 65% of the prescribed volumes of ONS are consumed. The reasons are multiple: anorexia, taste changes, monotony … also partly because patients dislike flavor, taste or texture. The respect of patients' preferences is essential to improve the therapeutic observance to ONS. Generally, ONS are delivered after the patient has told his preferences orally to the dietitian. To date, there is no study evaluating the effect of an alternative strategy based on a preliminary degustation of several products on the effective consumption of ONS in geriatrics. The study is designed as prospective, randomized, controlled, open study to test this strategy in older undernourished people hospitalized in geriatrics who require prescription of ONS. This study will be performed among 220 older people hospitalized in two departments of geriatrics of the AP-HM (Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille). The main objective is to compare the therapeutic observance to ONS when products are delivered to older people according to the usual way (preferences announced orally and/or dietitian's choice) or according to an alternative strategy based on a preliminary degustation of several products varying for flavor and texture but always in respect of the medical prescription. The secondary objective is to compare the evolution of the nutritional status estimated by routinely used clinical and biological parameters, as well as the main clinical outcomes during the hospital stay. Lastly, the nutritional status of these patients will be reevaluated clinically 3 months after the hospital's discharge. The hypothesis is that a strategy based on a preliminary degustation, leading to an informed choice, will significantly improve the acceptability and the effective consumption of ONS during the hospital stay, and will also impact positively the nutritional status at hospital's discharge and 3 months after. The validation of this hypothesis could allow recommending the generalization of preliminary degustation of ONS at the time of their prescription to optimize the therapeutic observance in undernourished older people.