Barber J H, Wallis J B
J R Coll Gen Pract. 1978 Jul;28(192):428-33.
There is currently great interest in the care of the elderly in general practice and discussion about the role of surveillance programmes. We report a comparison between two surveys of an elderly population carried out with a view to determining the difference in findings between two surveys of the same population.Each patient had an average of 4.8 problems at the time of the second assessment. The number of active and unknown problems fell from 6.4 per patient at the initial assessment.The greatest improvements were found in such topics as clothing, bedding, heating, dentition, diet, vision, and hearing, and the least in such aspects as dependency, home hazards, and problems with a caring relative.We remain convinced that a continuing programme of geriatric assessment is valuable in general practice.
目前，全科医疗中对老年人护理的关注度很高，并且对监测项目的作用也有相关讨论。我们报告了对老年人群进行的两次调查的比较情况，目的是确定对同一人群进行的两次调查结果之间的差异。在第二次评估时，每位患者平均有4.8个问题。初步评估时每位患者的活动问题和未知问题数量为6.4个，有所减少。在诸如衣物、床上用品、供暖、牙齿、饮食、视力和听力等方面改善最为明显，而在诸如依赖性、家庭安全隐患以及与照料亲属相关的问题等方面改善最少。我们仍然坚信，在全科医疗中持续开展老年评估项目是有价值的。
