Priorities of Care Among Older Adults in the Emergency Department: A Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Emergency departments (EDs) are an increasingly important site of care for older adults, but little is known about the priorities of emergency care in this population. We sought to describe and rank priorities of care among older adults receiving care in the ED.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study of cognitively intact patients aged 65 years and older receiving care in two U.S. EDs. Participants provided up to three open-ended responses to a single question asking what would make their ED visit successful, useful, or valuable. A literature review and patient responses were used to generate priority categories and larger metacategories. Each response was then assigned to one of the categories by independent reviewers. We report the percentage of patients i

SUBMITTER: Hunold KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4795961 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature