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Goals in geriatric assessment
— are we measuring the right outcomes? | | Author(s) | Elizabeth H Bradley, Sidney T Bogardus Jr, Carol von Doorn |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 2, April 2000 |
| Pages | pp 191-196 |
| Keywords | Out-patients ; Cognitive processes ; Self care capacity ; Health [elderly] ; Screening ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Important goals for outpatient geriatric care as described by patients and family caregivers are identified. Using a cross-section of 226 consecutive sets of patients and their primary family caregivers, physicians and case managers, goals of care for individual patients were coded from open-ended interview responses. Obtaining education and referrals (57.5%) and improving social and family relationships (53%) were the most common aims expressed by family caregivers. The process of establishing and meeting such goals should be explicitly included in evaluations of outpatient geriatric assessment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001102205 A |
| Classmark | LFB: DA: CA: CC: 3V: 4C: 7T |
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