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ArticleThe journal of nutrition, health & aging2021

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

V Guion, P de Souto Barreto, Y Rolland

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Article in The journal of nutrition, health & aging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Editorial: Resilience in Nursing Home Residents.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

V GuionVincent Guion, Gerontopole, 20 rue du Pont Saint-Pierre, Cité de la Santé, CHU de Toulouse, 31059 Toulouse, France, vincent.guion@gmail.com.
P de Souto Barreto
Y Rolland
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier · FRToulouse Mathematics Institute · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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

designObservational multicenter study.

setting17 EDs in France.

participants751 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.

resultsGroup-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 group 1 (n=190), NHRs presented with confusion and a rising prevalence of fatigue. In group 2 (n=212), NHRs presented with a highly prevalent but declining pain. In group 3 (n=158), NHRs presented with similar peaking pain prevalence, rising confusion and fatigue, and a high but stable agitation prevalence. In group 4 (n=144), NHRs presented with a highly prevalent but declining dyspnea, rising then declining fever, rising confusion, and a high and fluctuating fatigue prevalence. In group 5 (n=47), NHRs presented with a highly prevalent but declining fever, rising then declining dyspnea, stable and high both fatigue and pain prevalence, stable and low prevalence of confusion.

conclusionSymptom alleviation in NHRs transferred to ED was better achieved in those with pain, fever or dyspnea rather than in those with confusion, agitation and fatigue. NHRs' resilience through the stress of an ED transfer could be predicted by comorbidity and functional abilities, challenged by acute conditions representing various levels of stress intensity, and evaluated on the course of non-specific symptoms. NHRs' resilience is key to estimate the appropriateness of an ED transfer and should facilitate advance care planning regarding NHRs' hospitalizations.

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Emergency Service, HospitalFemaleHumansMaleNursing HomesPatient TransferTreatment OutcomeagitationconfusiondyspneafatiguefeverPain

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PMID33575722
PMCPMC12280560
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