Older patients referred for geriatric consultation in the emergency department: characteristics and healthcare utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is difficult to perform in the emergency department (ED) environment and performance of screening tools in identifying vulnerable older ED patients who are best candidates for a geriatric consultation remain questionable.

Aim

To determine the characteristics of older patients referred for a geriatric consultation by ED staff and to investigate these patients' subsequent healthcare utilization.

Methods

Secondary analysis of data previously collected for a prospective observational study of patients aged 75 + years visiting the ED of an academic hospital in Switzerland over four months (Michalski-Monnerat et al., J Am Geriatr Soc 68(12):2914-20, 2020). Socio-demographic, health, functional (basic activities of daily li

SUBMITTER: Gagliano M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10565963 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature