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| Characteristics of older patients attending genitourinary medicine clinics | | Author(s) | C Merryn Scott, Imtyaz Ahmed-Jushuf, Kevin J McKee |
| Journal title | Health Care in Later Life, vol 3, no 4, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 252-257 |
| Keywords | Urogenital system diseases ; AIDS ; Health services ; Usage [services] ; Staffordshire. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to identify and explore the demographic characteristics and clinical attributes of older patients attending genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinics. Detailed secondary analyses were carried out of patient activity data for three clinics within the Trent region. Of 25,508 clinic attenders in 1995, 4% were over the age of 50 years. The age and gender distributions of the older attenders were similar in the three clinics, although local differences did emerge in sources of referral and ethnicity. Comparisons with census data for the relevant catchment areas showed that non-married individuals were significantly over-represented within the clinic samples as a whole. There was an association between age and diagnostic profile, with older people more likely to be diagnosed with non-sexually transmitted diseases and conditions not requiring treatment. Furthermore, proportionately smaller numbers of older people were tested for HIV, especially male patients. The authors conclude that it is important that health care professionals should acknowledge that their older patients may have sexual health concerns. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981214402 A |
| Classmark | CO: CQTT: L: QLD: 8ST |
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