Döner Nedime Hazal, Usta Yeşilbalkan Öznur, Taktuk Uğur
Izmir University of Economics, Vocational School of Health Services, Balçova, , İzmir, 35330, Turkey.
Faculty of Nursing, Department of Internal Medicine Nursing, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
Support Care Cancer. 2025 Apr 25;33(5):414. doi: 10.1007/s00520-025-09462-1.
This study aims to investigate frequency and causes of emergency department visits among oncology patients aged 65 and older.
In this cross-sectional, descriptive and comparative study, data were collected a questionnaire form from a single emergency deparment of a university hospital in İzmir, West Turkey between January 2022 and July 2022. Data were analyzed by using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 software.
A total 125 patients were included in the study. The most common causes of patients to the emergency derparment were infection, pain, nausea-vomiting, and dyspnea. A significant difference was found between the reason for the patient's emergency department visit and their knowledge of when to seek medical help (p < 0.05).
The recurrent visits of cancer patients to emergency departments suggest an inadequacy of comprehensive information available to both patients and their caregivers concerning the pursuit of emergency medical intervention.
本研究旨在调查65岁及以上肿瘤患者到急诊科就诊的频率及原因。
在这项横断面、描述性和对比性研究中,于2022年1月至2022年7月期间从土耳其西部伊兹密尔一家大学医院的单一急诊科以问卷形式收集数据。使用IBM SPSS Statistics 25软件对数据进行分析。
本研究共纳入125例患者。患者前往急诊科最常见的原因是感染、疼痛、恶心呕吐和呼吸困难。患者到急诊科就诊的原因与其寻求医疗帮助时机的认知之间存在显著差异(p < 0.05)。
癌症患者反复前往急诊科表明,患者及其护理人员在寻求紧急医疗干预方面可获得的全面信息不足。