To examine nationwide trends in delirium mortality in Australia and the United States between 2006 and 2016.Delirium mortality data for Australian and United States populations were obtained...
Community health centers (CHCs) are federally funded safety-net clinics that provide care to low income and medically underserved persons. The proportion of CHC patients aged ≥65 doubled i...
In this paper, we present a study aiming to develop a questionnaire on instrumental support for transitional care as a tool for investigating services, staff, equipment and supplies, and fun...
The EDIFY program was developed to deliver early geriatric specialist interventions at the emergency department (ED) to reduce the number of acute admissions by identifying patients for safe...
There is an unmet need for training primary health care professionals on frailty, especially in countries where geriatrics is still emerging.We aimed to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy...
30-day hospital readmissions are an indicator of quality of care; hospitals are financially penalized by Medicare for high rates. Numerous care transition processes reduce readmissions in cl...
Interdisciplinary standardized protocols for the care of patients with hip fractures have been shown to improve outcomes. A hip fracture protocol was implemented at our institution to standa...
We aimed to study the impact of frailty on the outcome of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures.The National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database was queried for all patients a...
The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score has been adapted into categories of severity (mild, moderate, and severe) and are ubiquitous in the trauma setting. This study sought to revise the GCS cat...
To summarize the research literature describing the outcomes of computerized decision support systems (CDSSs) implemented in nursing homes (NHs).Scoping review.Search of relevant articles pu...
: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in rapid reorganisations of hospital care. In our hospital, the geriatrics team introduced the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) on the non-ICU COVID-19 units dur...
Frailty as a concept emerged as a geriatric term more than three decades ago, but although the concept was easy to understand its practical translation to individual patient care and the ava...
To determine whether Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs) prescribed in an academic emergency department (ED) are associated with increased ED revisits in older adults.A retrospectiv...
Multimorbidity and prolonged use of addictive medications are prevalent among older patients, and known to increase the risk of adverse drug events. Yet, the relationship between these two e...
Multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) are common among older adults and expensive to manage. Two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries have multiple conditions (eg, diabetes and osteoarthritis) and ...
To evaluate the risk factors associated with 30- and 90-day hospital readmissions in geriatric rehabilitation inpatients.Observational, prospective longitudinal inception cohort.Tertiary hos...
The usual calculation of body mass index (BMI) can be misleading in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) because their altered fluid balances may not be reflected. We obtained...
Patients accommodated in single-bed rooms may have a reduced risk of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) compared to those in multi-bed rooms. This study aimed to examine the effect of singl...
In Moscow (as of January 1, 2020), the number of population made up to 12,678,079, and out of them the elderly population made up to 2.8 million. Up to the end of 2020, the number of the eld...
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To prospectively validate the use of a simplified geriatric assessment (sGA) at diagnosis and to integrate it into a prognostic score for older patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (D...
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