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Nov 12-13, 2018 | Paris, France

Nutraceuticals and Food Sciences

International Conference on

27

th

International Conference on

Nursing and Healthcare

&

Joint Event

Journal of Food science and Nutrition | Volume 1

The effectiveness of Post-Acute Care (PAC) for lower limb surgery patients

Jin-Jin Yang

PAC Medical Center, Taiwan

Objectives:

To Comparison of differences the lower Limb

surgery Patients in activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental

activities of daily living (IADL),during hospitalization, entering

PAC, leaving PAC, returning home for 1 month, 3 months, 6

months and to discussion the potential factors affecting.

Methods:

This is a retrospective study, the database is from the

PACunitatamedicalcenterinthesouth.Thisstudyevaluatedthe

changes in ADL, IADL, of lower Limb surgery patients, Complete

an acute course of treatment and transfer to PAC after the

Attending Physician assesses the need. Discuss the difference

in ADL and IADL after PAC admission and after discharge, and

explore the relevant factors that affect the independence of

daily life function when the patient after discharged. Data were

analyzed with SPSS20 packaged software for statistical analysis

according to the research purposes, assumptions and variable

attributes.

Results:

A total of 53 samples participated in this study. an

average age of 85.1, The youngest is 46 years old, the longest

is 97 years old, 54.2% of patients live with their families and

14.6% live alone. A total of 66.7% cases of femur fractures

were caused by falls in the elderly. After receiving care from

professional medical teams at intermediate care hospitals, the

participants reported significant improvement in their ADL, IADL

that reached a statistical difference (p<0.0001). Further follow-

up tracking of ADL and IADL during hospitalization to 6 months

of home return for activity tracking have all significant progress.

Thus, the IADL status at admission is significantly related to the

independence in ADL after hospitalization.

Conclusions:

The assessment of IADL on admission can be

considered as an independent evaluation index of the function

of daily living before discharge from the patient.

Speaker Biography

Jin-Jin Yang is working in the PAC Medical Center at Taiwan. Jin has attended several

scientific meetings and currently working in the research field of Nursing and Healthcare.

e:

jjyang@vghks.gov.tw