Juan González Del Castillo, Javier Jacob, Eric Jorge García-Lamberechts, Pascual Piñera Salmerón, Aitor Alquézar-Arbé, Pere Llorens, Sònia Jiménez, Francisco de Borja Quero Espinosa, Sira Aguiló, Adriana Gil-Rodrigo, Cesáreo Fernández Alonso, Guillermo Burillo-Putze, Begoña Espinosa Fernández, Coral Suero Méndez, Marta Iglesias Vela, Eva Quero Motto, Jeong-Uh Hong Cho, Ferran Llopis, Rafael Marrón, Sara Gayoso Martín, Carmen Lucena Aguilera, Xavier Alemany González, Miguel A Rizzi, Lluís Llauger, Ana Murcia Olagüenaga, Aarati Vaswani-Bulchand, Patricia Parra Esquivel, José Andrés Sánchez Nicolás, Elena Carrasco Fernández, Esther Ruescas Escolano, Ana Chacón García, Fátima Fernández Salgado, Òscar Miró
OBJECTIVES: To describe the sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidity, and baseline functional status of patients aged 65 or older who came to hospital emergency departments (EDs) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to compare them with the findings for an earlier period to analyze factors of the index episode that were related to mortality. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We studied data from the EDEN-COVID cohort (Emergency Department and Elder Needs During COVID-19) of patients aged 65 years or older treated in 40 Spanish EDs on 7 consecutive days...
December 2022: Emergencias: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Emergencias