@article{ref1,
title="Characteristics of elderly long-term care residents who were injured and transferred to hospital emergency departments in Korea: a retrospective multicenter study",
journal="Emergency medicine international",
year="2019",
author="Namgung, Myeong and Kim, Keon and Lee, Dong Hoon and Yune, Ho Young and Wee, Jung Hee and Kim, Duk Ho and Kim, Eui Chung and Lim, Jee Yong",
volume="2019",
number="",
pages="e7803184-e7803184",
abstract="The objective of this retrospective multicenter study was to investigate the mechanism and characteristics of trauma experienced by patients aged ≥65 years who were transferred from a long-term care hospital to one of five university hospital emergency departments. Of 255,543 patients seen in one of the five emergency departments, 79 were transferred from a long-term care hospital because of trauma. The most common trauma mechanism was slipping down, with 33 (58.9%) patients, followed by falling from a bed (17.9%), striking an object such as a wall or corner (10.7%), overextending a joint (8.9%), and unknown mechanisms (3.6%). Many cases of slip (39.4%) occurred in relation to the bathroom. Comparing slip and fall from a bed, we found more hip fractures (95.2%) because of slipping down than falling from a bed (57.1%); traumatic brain injury only occurred in slip cases. These traumas cause significant morbidity in elderly patients; therefore, we sought to identify strategies that prevent slip in long-term care hospitals.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2090-2840",
doi="10.1155/2019/7803184",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7803184"
}