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Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital
— meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials | | Author(s) | Graham Ellis, Martin A Whitehead, David Robinson |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 343, no 7832, 19 November 2011 |
| Pages | pp 1034 |
| Source | www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Admission [hospitals] ; Accident & emergency depts ; Clinical surveys ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Is comprehensive geriatric assessment effective for older people admitted to hospital as an emergency? The authors evaluated randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital as an emergency with general medical care. 22 RCTs were identified involving 10,315 patients across six countries. This is a summary of a paper published on bmj.com, which found that older patients in receipt of comprehensive geriatric assessment wre more likely to be alive and in their own homes up to a year after admission, especially if they had been admitted to a geriatric ward. Smaller reviews have shown that comprehensive geriatric assessment can be effective in some subgroups. This meta-analysis showed that the key feature of comprehensive geriatric assessment is treatment in a discrete specialist ward. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121102208 A |
| Classmark | CC: IK: 4C: LD:QKH: LD6: 3G: 64A * |
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