Hospitalization Incidence and Risk Factors for Institutionalized Elderly in Natal, Brazil

20.6% of 320 institutionalized elderly participants were hospitalized over a 12-month follow-up period. This concurrent cohort study collected sociodemographic, health, nutritional, functional, and cognitive data from 10 long-term care institutions in Natal, RN, Brazil. The research was authored by Fabienne Louise Juvêncio Paes de Andrade and identifies malnutrition risk and cardiovascular drug use as significant risk factors for hospitalization.

Use Cases

• Predicting hospitalization risk in elderly populations based on collected sociodemographic and health condition variables.
• Analyzing the association between nutritional status (MAN) and hospitalization incidence.
• Investigating the impact of functional capacity (KATZ index) and cognitive status (Pfeiffer test) on healthcare utilization.
• Modeling the relationship between medication use, specifically cardiovascular drugs, and hospital admission rates.

Strengths

• Includes data from 320 participants across 10 institutions, providing a multi-site cohort.
• Contains a 12-month follow-up period with a reported hospitalization incidence of 20.6% and average length of stay of 16.1 days.
• Collects multiple assessment dimensions: sociodemographic, nutritional, functional, cognitive, and muscle strength.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the single-city (Natal, Brazil) study design.

Provenance

Source

Fabienne Louise Juvêncio Paes de Andrade

Collection Method

Concurrent cohort study with data collection from long-term care institutions.

Time Range

12-month follow-up period (specific years unknown).

Geography

Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.