[Geriatric vs. non-geriatric XXXX hospitalization to the @entity146 services of a general hospital in Chile].

@entity1 @entity162 @entity146 @entity303 @entity1316 @entity148 @entity1277 @entity1314
INTRODUCTION: It is estimated that Chilean geriatric population (=65 years) will hit 16% in the year 2030. Psychiatric longer stays have been described for those equal 65 years vs. less than 65 years. We aim to describe the characteristics associated with lengths of stay in our @entity146 unit. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective review of 3112 admissions between July 2001 and June 2010 to the general @entity146 service of the Pontific Catholic University of Chile. RESULTS: 5.1% (n=132) of the sample was geriatric @entity1 . The average length of stay for this group was 12.4 days (p=0.41). Both the geriatric and non-geriatric population presented a high prevalence of @entity1316 (63.7% and 55.1%, respectively). In the geriatric group, there was a higher presence of @entity162 (27.3 vs. 19.5%; p less than 0.05) and @entity303 (16.7% vs. 0.5%). In contrast, for = 65 years, there was significantly less prevalence of adaptive and @entity148 (3% vs. 13%; p less than 0.01). There was just one case of @entity1314 and no cases of @entity1277 in the geriatric group. There were no differences in the lengths of stay according to diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: We did not find longer stay times, in general or associated with specific diagnoses, in geriatric @entity1 versus non-geriatric @entity1 .
