@article{ref1,
title="Chief complaints of elderly individuals on presentation to emergency department: a retrospective analysis of South Korean national data 2014",
journal="Asian nursing research",
year="2016",
author="Song, Misoon and Jin, Xianglan and Ko, Ha Na and Tak, Sunghee H.",
volume="10",
number="4",
pages="312-317",
abstract="PURPOSE: We aimed to assess the chief complaints (CCs) of elderly individuals on presentation to the emergency department (ED) according to gender, age, and disease-related and injury-related visits. <br><br>METHODS: The 2014 registry database of the National Emergency Department Information System in South Korea, which included data on 908,761 ED visits by individuals aged 65 years and over, was reviewed. <br><br>RESULTS: We found that 80.7% ED visits were related to disease, whereas the remaining visits were related to injury. The most common CCs presented by elderly male and female individuals with disease-related visits were dyspnea and dizziness, respectively. The 10 most common CCs accounted for 45.5% and 49.2% of the total disease-related visits for male and female individuals, respectively. The most common CC in male and female individuals with injury-related visits was headache and hip pain, respectively. The CC rank showed minimal variance among the different age groups, but a difference was observed between male and female individuals. The most common mechanism of injury in elderly male and female individuals was slipping, wherein females showed a higher occurrence rate than their male counterparts. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These findings can be used to establish an ED training curriculum for nursing students and ED nurses, particularly for ED triage in the elderly.<br><br>Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier B.V.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1976-1317",
doi="10.1016/j.anr.2016.10.001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anr.2016.10.001"
}