HOSPITALIZAÇÃO DE IDOSOS POR DIABETES MELLITUS: ESTUDO ECOLÓGICO

Abstract

The objective was to describe hospitalizations, length of stay, deaths and mortality rate from Diabetes Mellitus in the elderly. This is an ecological study. Data were collected from the Hospitalization System, organized in Microsoft Excel, analyzed in R and ArcGIS. The variables were hospitalizations, length of stay, deaths and mortality rate. There were 28,746 hospitalizations of elderly people with DM in ten years, being more prevalent in women (57.31%). Similarly, permanence (54.92%), deaths (60.51%) and mortality rate (53.69%) were more present in females. The trend for these hospitalizations has decreased while the mortality rate has increased. Geoprocessing showed cities that have a high mortality rate. The Spearman test found that days of stay and deaths are correlated and the age group “80 years or more” is more intense with deaths.