The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) network approach: a protocol to advance stakeholder consensus and research priorities in geriatrics and dementia care in the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Increasingly, older adults are turning to emergency departments (EDs) to address healthcare needs. To achieve these research demands, infrastructure is needed to both generate evidence of intervention impact and advance the development of implementation science, pragmatic trials evaluation and dissemination of findings from studies addressing the emergency care needs of older adults. The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (https://gearnetwork.org) has been created in response to these scientific needs-to build a transdisciplinary infrastructure to support the research that will optimise emergency care for older adults and persons living with dementia.

Methods and analysis

In this paper, we describe our approach to developing the GEAR Network infra

SUBMITTER: Hwang U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9036447 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature