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Uso de tecnologias na promoção de alta hospitalar segura entre idosos – uma revisão integrativa da literatura
By Rafaella Lígia Roque Cordeiro, Cláudio Emmanuel Gonçalves da Silva Filho, Luciana Maranhão Medeiros de Sousa and 4 others.
Abstract
Introduction
Hospitalization is a factor that worsens the health of the elderly. The moment of hospital discharge is a watershed moment, in which elderly people who are discharged are more prone to adverse events. The use of technologies to promote safe hospital discharge for elderly patients can be positive.
Objective
to evaluate the use of technologies (light, light-hard and hard) applied to elderly patients, during hospitalization or at hospital discharge. Methodology: This is an integrative review of the literature. The review was carried out in the Virtual Health Library (VHL), including the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Web of Science, Cochrane Library and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) databases. Articles including hospitalized patients aged 65 years or older that addressed technologies used for hospital discharge in clinical admissions were included. The exclusion criteria were: review articles, dissertations, theses, texts that did not address patients aged 65 years or over, did not address technologies used at hospital discharge and were related to surgical admissions.