Publications by authors named "Lourdes Artajona"
Article Synopsis
- - The study explored fear of falling (FOF) in older patients post-fall, focusing on factors linked to FOF and its impact on long-term health outcomes, using a sample of 1464 patients aged 65 and older from various emergency departments.
- - Key factors associated with FOF included age, gender, living situation, and past fall experiences; inversely, those using walking aids or in residential care had lower FOF.
- - Although FOF was common among participants, it wasn't significantly connected to long-term outcomes like death or hospitalization, indicating a need for further research on how FOF affects older adults' quality of life and functional capacity.
Objectives: To determine whether income was associated with unexpected in-hospital mortality in older patients treated in Spanish public health system hospital emergency departments.
Material And Methods: Fifty-one public health system hospital emergency departments in Spain voluntarily participated in the study. Together the hospitals covered 25% of the population aged 65 years or older included in all patient registers during a week in the pre-pandemic period (April 1-7, 2019) and a week during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 30 to April 5, 2020).
Objectives: To validate risk factors for mortality in patients treated for COVID-19 in a hospital emergency department during the sixth wave of the pandemic.
Material And Methods: Prospective observational noninterventional study. We included patients over the age of 18 years with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 between December 1, 2021, and February 28, 2022.
Objectives: To validate a previously described hospital emergency department risk model to predict mortality in patients with COVID-19.
Material And Methods: Prospective observational noninterventional study. Patients aged over 18 years diagnosed with COVID-19 were included between December 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021.