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| New horizons in Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment | | Author(s) | S G Parker, A McLeod, P McCue |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 46, no 5, September 2017 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, September 2017 |
| Pages | pp 713-721 |
| Source | https://academic.oup.com/ageing |
| Keywords | Geriatric hospitals ; Acute illness ; Accident & emergency depts ; In-patients ; Health [elderly] ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | In this article the authors discuss the emergence of new models for delivery of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in the acute hospital setting. CGA is the core technology of Geriatric Medicine and for hospital inpatients it improves key outcomes such as survival, time spent at home and institutionalisation. Traditionally It is delivered by specialised multidisciplinary teams, often in dedicated wards, but in recent years has begun to be taken up and developed quite early in the admission process (at the `front door'), across traditional ward boundaries and in speciality settings such as surgical and pre-operative care and oncology. A scan of recent literature, including observational studies of service evaluations, and abstracts of conference presentations, provides an overview of an emerging landscape of innovation and development in CGA services for hospital inpatients. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171006201 A |
| Classmark | LDA: CHA: LD6: LF7: CC: 4C |
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