Abstract

MORALES RUIZ, Juan Carlos  and  COTE ROJAS, Edgar Orlando. CLINICAL FEATURES OF PAIN IN THE FUNDATION SANTA SOFIA'S ELDER PEOPLE AT BOGOTÁ D.C.. rev.udcaactual.divulg.cient. [online]. 2010, vol.13, n.2, pp.7-14. ISSN 0123-4226.

Pain is one of the most common complaints in the primary care setting. The frequency in the geriatric population is such, that it is considered a sanitary problem of epidemic proportions, which affects the quality of life of the individual and represents a big economic burden, related with the cost of the medical attention and the decrease of the functionality. At the present there are only a few studies which describe the phenomenon and establish parameters for the diagnosis and the treatment of the pain in the elderly. This study provides some information about the characteristics of the pain and the strategies used for the diagnosis and the treatment of the symptom in a group of more than one thousand not institutionalized persons at Bogota City, in the period between January, 2001 and December, 2007. The information obtained trough the clinical registries coincides with those registered in the literature, observing a worrying absence of attention of the psychological and social aspects of the scene.

Keywords : Pain; elderly people; clinical issues; diagnosis; therapy.

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