January 2017
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Open Journal of Clinical Diagnostics
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November 2012
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Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential determinants for emergency medical utilization by elderly patients in Taiwan. The data were drawn from the 'Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan', a population-based, longitudinal study of a nationally representative random sample of older adults aged 60 years and older, which was conducted from 1989 to 2007. Face-to-face interviews were conducted at the respondents' homes by trained interviewers accompanied by local health workers. The Andersen Behavioral Model helped us to evaluate the potential determinants for emergency medical utilization that included predisposing factors, enabling factors, and need factors. The measurements of determinants were repeated five times in the period of this study, and the longitudinal data were analyzed through the generalized estimating equation (GEE) by SPSS 17.0 software. The eligibility criteria were that respondents had to be more than 65 years old at baseline in 1993, and then they had to be enrolled in a 14-year follow-up period from 1993 to 2007. At the beginning of this study in 1993, there were 2961 eligible respondents in total, and in 2007, there were 1136 survivors. The loss in follow-up was mainly due to death. The results demonstrated that the significant determinants of emergency medical utilization by the elderly population were gender, age, education, self-ranked health status, chronic disease, and medical accessibility. The GEE model provides a suitable method to predict the long-term trend of emergency medical utilization by the elderly.
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... The antigen and serum were mixed in a circular movement with the help of a glass rod. Both antigen and serum were rocked at room temperature for 2-4 minutes and the slides were checked on a colony counter, and a sign of agglutination was recorded as positive (Figure 1a) and sign without agglutination on the slide was recorded as negative (Figure 1b) (Teng et al., 2017). The contents of the ELISA Kit were stored at 4-8 °C until use, while all kit chemicals and serum samples were maintained at 21 °C prior to the commencement of the experiment. ...
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January 2017
Open Journal of Clinical Diagnostics
... Female sex is commonly referred as a predictor of physician visits in some studies with adults (e.g., Lindamer et al., 2012) and older adults (e. g., Al Snih et al., 2006;Cotingting et al., 2018;Redondo-Sendino, Guallar-Castillón, Banegas & Rodríguez-Artalejo, 2006). However, when considering hospital care, some studies found that being male was a significant predictor of hospital use (e.g., Conner, 2012;Suominen-Taipale et al., 2006), as well as ED visits (e.g., McCusker, Cardin, Bellavance & Belzile, 2000;Teng et al., 2013), with females being less likely to use inpatient care (Gong et al., 2016) in line with our findings. Some research has been conducted in order to better understand sex differences in health and aging (e.g., Freedman, Wolf & Spillman, 2016;Gordon, Peel & Hubbard, 2018;Lindahl-Jacobsen et al., 2013;Oksuzyan, Juel, Vaupel & Christensen, 2008;van Oyen et al., 2013;Zhang et al., 2018). ...
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November 2012
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics