The impact of frailty and geriatric syndromes on metrics of acute care performance: results of a national day of care survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty is associated with a range of adverse clinical outcomes in the acute hospital setting. We sought to determine whether frailty and related factors affected clinical processes such as time to assessment during emergency hospital admission within the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK.

Methods

The Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit (SAMBA) is an annual cross-sectional day of care survey. SAMBA 2022 was conducted on Thursday 23rd June 2022. We assessed whether the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) and presence of a geriatric syndrome affected performance against nationally recognised clinical quality indicators based on time to initial assessment and time to consultant review. CFS was graded into robust (CFS1-3), mild (CFS 4-5), moderate (CFS 6), se

SUBMITTER: Knight T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10772156 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature