Trajectories of Symptoms in Nursing Home Residents after a Transfer to the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the trajectories of pain, dyspnea, fever, confusion, agitation and fatigue of nursing home residents' (NHRs) after a transfer to the emergency department (ED).

Design

Observational multicenter study.

Setting

17 EDs in France.

Participants

751 NHRs presenting to EDs over four non-consecutive weeks (one week per season) in 2016.

Measurements

Trajectories of symptoms (binary variables) including pain, dyspnea, fever, agitation, confusion and fatigue at four times: before ED transfer, during the transfer, in the ED and after discharge.

Results

Group-based multi-trajectory modelling was performed to identify groups of NHRs following similar trajectories of symptoms evolution after a transfer to ED. Five groups were identified. In

SUBMITTER: Guion V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12280560 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature