Evaluating older adults with cognitive dysfunction: A qualitative study with emergency clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating older adults with cognitive dysfunction in emergency departments (EDs) requires obtaining collateral information from sources other than the patient. Understanding the challenges emergency clinicians face in obtaining collateral information can inform development of interventions to improve geriatric emergency care and, more specifically, detection of ED delirium. The objective was to understand emergency clinicians' experiences obtaining collateral information on older adults with cognitive dysfunction, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

From February to May 2021, we conducted semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 22 emergency physicians and advanced practice providers from two urban academic hospitals and one communi

SUBMITTER: Chary AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200057 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature