Application and implementation of brief geriatric assessment in primary care and community settings: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment is the gold standard of clinical care for older patients but its application in the primary care setting is limited, possibly due to its time-consuming process. Hence, a brief geriatric assessment could be a feasible alternative. We conducted a scoping review to identify which brief geriatric assessment tools have been evaluated or implemented in primary and community care settings and to identify the domains assessed including their reported outcomes.

Methods

CENTRAL, PubMed and Embase were searched using specific text words and MeSH for articles published from inception that studied evaluation or implementation of brief geriatric assessments in primary care or community setting.

Results

Twenty-five articles were included

SUBMITTER: Lau LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11697857 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature