title: [Quality of life and pain in hospitalized geriatric patients].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To determine objective and subjective indications of quality of life in hospitalized geriatric patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected on 267 items using standardized interviews of 90 patients, including B-L and SF-36.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In comparison to the control population, geriatric patients have worse SF-36 values; 91% have pain, and 63% depression and elevated B-L values. Pain therapy is usually with non-opiates and with warm/cold physical therapies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pain therapy in the geriatric population surveyed does not reach the same standard as is usually offered to hospitalized medical and surgical patients.
authors.affiliation: Landeskrankenhaus Klagenfurt, St. Veiter Strasse 4, Klagenfurt, Osterreich. wolfgang.pipam@lkh-klu.at
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pipam
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Penz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Janig
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Plank
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gatternig
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Likar
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001317:Austria; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors