The fragile patient management in the territory: results of a pilot study of monitoring of individuals over 65 at risk in summer 2014

Abstract

In his daily activities a general practitioner wonders about a patient’s probability to see his state of health altered due to external factors that could influence it. Surely some risk factors , both modifiable and not modifiable , can interact with external factors to increase the incidence of diseases or ailments that compels one person to go under medical care, to the emergency room or in serious cases to hospitalization and / or exitus . The summer period , and in particular the risk of heat wave in big cities , as reported in the literature , is an additional risk factor for the development of difficult health situations.

Keywords

• general practitioner
• frail patients
• summer
• heat waves
• risk factors
• elderly