Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
March 2024
Alteration of the general state of health is a frequent clinical situation as reason for hospital admission of older adults, although there is no consensus on criteria of the diagnostic approach. Our objective was to study whether thorax, abdomen and pelvis tomography is useful for the diagnosis and determination of a specific care pathway for hospitalized patients over 80 years old with alteration of the general state without identified clinical explanation. retrospective observational monocentric study at a French University Hospital, with the inclusion of all hospitalized patients who had a tomography following for alteration of general state without identified clinical explanation between January 2019 and June 2020.
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