Introduction: As the population is aging and the number of the seniors is rising, the importance of knowledge and methods of geriatry and gerontology grows bigger. The seniors represent highly specified group of patients whose health care and treatment should be paid especial attention. Multimorbidity, polypharmacotherapy and an enlarged risk of adverse drug events often make such treatment more complicated. Complex geriatric assessment and acceptance of principals of geriatric prescription both represent key values of rational treatment. This thesis is dedicated to the issue of insomnia and rating of sedative/hypnotic treatment in the czech sample of seniors in acute care. Methodology: The data for this thesis were collected between the years 2018-2019 within EUROAGEISM H2020 project. They include information on 438 patients 65 years of age and older which was collected from three geriatric medical acute care centres in Czech republic (Prague, Brno, Hradec Králové) and gained from the medical documentation combined with the information from patient and medical staff themselves, which were interviewed with use of standardized questionnaire of the EUROAGEISM H2020 research project. The questionnaire was composed from sociodemographic characteristics, assesment of functional ability, nutrition state...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:408135 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Zelinková, Andrea |
| Contributors | Fialová, Daniela, Malý, Josef |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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