Disease patterns of hospitalized patients at the Vietnamese National Geriatric Hospital, 2014

With the rapid rise in the world’s elderly population, particularly in Vietnam, there is a concomitant increasing demand for geriatric departments. What is the structure of a geriatric department? Which diseases should be paid attention to? Determining the disease patterns of older patients will contribute to the design of a comprehensive plan for elderly patients’ health care in Vietnam. In this study, we evaluated disease patterns of elderly patients hospitalized at the Vietnamese National Geriatric Hospital. We collected data from 600 inpatient medical records for patients age 60 and above who were hospitalized at the National Geriatric Hospital in 2014.