Role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) may be a way to deliver optimal care for care home residents. We used realist review to develop a theory-driven account of how CGA works in care homes.

Design

Realist review.

Setting

Care homes.

Methods

The review had three stages: first, interviews with expert stakeholders and scoping of the literature to develop programme theories for CGA; second, iterative searches with structured retrieval and extraction of the literature; third, synthesis to refine the programme theory of how CGA works in care homes.We used the following databases: Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, PsychInfo, PubMed, Google Scholar, Greylit, Cochrane Library and Joanna Briggs Institute.

Results

130 articles informed a programme theory which

SUBMITTER: Chadborn NH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6500328 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature