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Frailty in the elderly: screening possibilities in Primary Health Care
Ribeiro,Edmar Geraldo; Mendoza,Isabel Yovana Quispe; Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida Camargos; Guimarães,Gilberto de LimaABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate two instruments for screening frailty in the elderly in Primary Health Care. Methods: this is an observational, cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, with 396 elderly people. SPSS software helped to perform the statistical analyses. The study used the kappa coefficient and Spearman’s correlation. Results: the kappa coefficient between the Clinical-Functional Vulne...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions for cardiovascular disea...
Ribeiro,Edmar Geraldo; Pinheiro,Pedro Cisalpino; Nascimento,Bruno Ramos; Cacique,João Pedro Pereira; Teixeira,Renato Azeredo; Nascimento,Jamil de SouzaAbstract INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the behavior of individuals and the organization of health systems. This study analyzed the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on public hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in a large city in Brazil, Belo Horizonte, MG, with approximately 2.5 million inhabitants. METHODS: In a time-series analysis, this study used administrative data ...
Self-perceived health and clinical-functional vulnerability of the elderly in B...
Ribeiro,Edmar Geraldo; Matozinhos,Fernanda Penido; Guimarães,Gilberto de Lima; Couto,Alcimar Marcelo do; Azevedo,Raquel SouzaABSTRACT Objective: To determine the self-perceived health status and clinical-functional vulnerability of the elderly attended at a Reference Center of Minas Gerais, Brazil and to evaluate the association between these variables through the Clinical-Functional Vulnerability Index (IVCF-20) instrument. Method: This is an epidemiological, retrospective study of 311 medical records. Statistical analyses were perf...
Physical environment and spatial accessibility: contributions to nursing care i...
Ribeiro,Edmar Geraldo; Soares,Sônia Maria; Azevedo,Raquel Souza; Soares,Márcia Maria<p>The increasing elderly population provides significant challenges to maintaining quality of life and health status. One of these challenges includes the dimension of the physical space and accessibility for the elderly in nursing care. The aim of this paper is to discuss through a narrative review of the literature, the implications of the physical environment and the design of spatial accessibility for the ...