Titre : | Refrigerator content and hospital admission in old people. (2000) |
Auteurs : | N. BOUMENDJEL ; V. GIROD ; F. HERRMANN ; C.H. RAPIN ; C. SIEBER ; Department of Geriatrics. University Hospitals of Geneva. CHE |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Lancet (The) (vol. 356, n° 9229, 2000) |
Pagination : | 563- |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Hospitalisation ; Facteur risque ; Aliment ; Suisse ; Europe ; Personne âgée ; Homme ; Alimentation |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST nC0AbR0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. We assessed whether the refrigerator contents of elderly people could be related to subsequent admission to hospital. 132 patients aged over 65 years had a thorough assessment of their refrigerator contents and the numbers and dates of admission were recorded. Elderly people with empty refrigerators were more frequently admitted (p=0.032) in the month after assessment and three times sooner than those who did not have empty refrigerators (34 vs 100 days, p=0.002). |