Quality of Care Delivered Before vs After a Quality-Improvement Intervention for Acute Geriatric Trauma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older trauma-injury patients had improved recovery after we implemented routine geriatric consultation for patients aged 65 years and older admitted to the trauma service of a Level I academic trauma center. The intervention aimed to improve quality of geriatric care. However, the specific care processes that improved are unknown.

Study design

We conducted a prospective observation comparing medical care after (December 2007 to November 2009) vs before (December 2006 to November 2007) implementation of the geriatric consult-based intervention. To measure quality of care (QOC), we used 33 previously validated care-process quality indicators (QIs) from the Assessing the Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) study, measured by review of medical records for 76 geriatric c

SUBMITTER: Min L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4409474 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature