Clinical Study
Urinary Incontinence in Hospitalised Elderly Patients: Do Nurses Recognise and Manage the Problem?
Table 1
Patients’ characteristics.
| | Incontinent | Continent |
| Gender | | | | | Women | 30 | (56.6%) | 23 | (43.4%) | Men | 11 | (44.0%) | 14 | (56.0%) | Mean age in years | 76 | (7.7 SD) | 74 | (7.6 SD) | Mean length of stay in days | 12.5 | (8.5 SD) | 13.4 | (11.1 SD) | Units | | | | | Internal Medicine | 18 | (58.1%) | 13 | (41.9%) | Orthopaedics | 23 | (48.9%) | 24 | (51.1%) |
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