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versão On-line ISSN 1028-9933
Resumo
DIGURNAY-DURRUTHY, Iliana; RAMIREZ-ROMAGUERA, Melba e PEREZ-MACIAS, Jesús Rolando. Characterization of the elderly patient with psychiatric urgency in the Psychiatric Hospital “Luis Ramírez López”, Guantanamo 2019. Rev. inf. cient. [online]. 2020, vol.99, n.3, pp. 209-216. Epub 14-Set-2020. ISSN 1028-9933.
Introduction:
The elderly assisted in the urgency service in the Psychiatric Hospital Luis Ramirez Lopez has not been characterized.
Objective:
To characterize the elderly patients with a psychiatric urgency assisted in the urgency service of the already mentioned institution during the year 2019.
Method:
A descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study was carried out. The following variables were studied in the total of assisted patients (N=1427): sex, age, area of origin, diagnosis and steps to follow with the patient.
Results:
64.4% of the patients were women and the 35.6% men, with an average age between 60 and 69 years (57.9%) and who came from the south area of the municipality of Guantánamo (30.3%). The most common diagnoses were affective dysfunctions (32.7%), mostly with ambulatory treatment (81.4%).
Conclusions:
It is considerably high the demand on psychiatric attention in urgency service for elderly patients, mainly because of affective dysfunctions that require ambulatory attention.
Palavras-chave : elderly patients; psychiatry; urgent care.