Interprofessional Intervention to Improve Geriatric Consultation Timing on an Acute Medical Service.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether an interprofessional intervention would improve the use and timing of a geriatric consultation on a hospitalist service.

Design

Difference-in-differences (DID), which measures the difference in improvement over time between intervention and control team patients attributable to the intervention.

Setting

1,000-bed U.S. academic medical center.

Participants

Individuals aged 60 and older admitted to a general medicine hospitalist service (N=7,038; n = 718 on intervention teams, n = 686 historical controls, n = 5,634 on control teams (concurrent and historic).

Intervention

On 2 of 11 hospitalist teams, a geriatrician attended multidisciplinary discharge rounds twice weekly and advised on the benefits of a geriatric consultatio

SUBMITTER: Puelle M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9125742 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature