Epidemiological clinical profile of the elderly attended at a public hospital in the south of the city of São Paulo between 2010 and 2016

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To know the epidemiological and demographic profile of the elderly who attend a general hospital, on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. METHOD: This is a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional observational study, conducted in a Public Hospital in the Southern Region of São Paulo- SP, from January 2010 to December 2016, with people over 60 years of age. A nonparametric kolmogorov - Smirnov test was used. RESULTS: Demographic data show that the majority of the elderly who attend the hospital presented acute diseases, with cardiocerebrovascular diseases (30.25%), respiratory diseases (13.39%), infectious diseases (12.42%), gastrointestinal tract diseases (9.68%), trauma (8%), urogenital diseases (7.2%), cancer (3.25%). In the study of prevalence of acute diseases stratified by decades of life, an increase in prevalence was found: in the elderly over 80 years: pulmonary diseases, septicemia, diseases of the genitourinary system. CONCLUSIONS: Cardiovascular diseases are predominant, followed by respiratory diseases in a public hospital on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo. The knowledge of this profile has a great potential for hospital administrators to organize their services to serve this group of patients in a more humane and efficient way and a subsidy for primary health care actions.