Developing a virtual geriatric perioperative medicine clinic: a mixed methods healthcare improvement study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

the Geriatric Perioperative Care clinic at North Bristol NHS Trust was suspended in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. A virtual clinic was piloted to deliver preoperative health optimisation and shared decision-making for patients undergoing critical elective surgery. No literature existed on virtual preoperative clinics for older people to support the development.

Objective

this healthcare improvement study describes the setup and delivery of the virtual clinic as its primary aim. Secondary aims included: assessing older people's access to technology and their digital literacy for virtual consultation; to describe barriers and facilitators for consultations, as well as evaluation of patient and clinician satisfaction with the consultations' mode of deliver

SUBMITTER: Joughin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8240915 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature