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Clinical frailty adds to acute illness severity in predicting mortality in hospitalized older adults
Frail Elderly hospital medicine Mortality Patient acuity Survival Analysis Acute Disease Aged Aged 80 and over Emergency Service hospital England Female Frail Elderly Geriatric Assessment Hospital Mortality Humans Length of Stay Male Proportional Hazards Models Retrospective Studies Severity of Illness Index
Allocating patients to geriatric medicine wards in a tertiary university hospital in England
Setareh Alabaf Sabbaghi, Darryl De Souza, Premchand Sarikonda, Victoria L Keevil, Stephen J Wallis, Roman Romero-Ortuno
Sep 20, 2018
The number of older patients admitted to acute hospitals has increased; however, their needs are heterogeneous and there is no gold-standard method of triaging them towards practicing comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). In...
Determining the skills needed by frontline NHS staff to deliver quality improvement
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have detailed the technical, learning and soft skills healthcare staff deploy to deliver quality improvement (QI). However, research has mainly focused on management and leadership skills...
Health and Social Factors Associated with a Delayed Discharge Amongst Inpatients on Acute Geriatric Wards
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In the English National Health Service (NHS) there is an increasing interest in understanding the factors associated with delayed discharges in older hospitalised adults. This study sought to analyse whether clinical...
Clinical frailty and functional trajectories in hospitalized older adults
Peter Hartley, Jennifer Adamson, Carol Cunningham, Georgina Embleton, Roman Romero-Ortuno
Apr 27, 2016
Clinical Frailty Scale disability Frail Elderly functional trajectory hospital medicine Aged Aged 80 and over Cohort Studies England Female Frail Elderly frailty Geriatric Assessment Health Status Indicators Hospital Mortality Hospitalization Humans Length of Stay Male Predictive Value of Tests Prognosis Retrospective Studies Tertiary Care Centers
Allocating patients to geriatric medicine wards in a tertiary university hospital in England
Setareh Alabaf Sabbaghi, Darryl De Souza, Premchand Sarikonda, Victoria L Keevil, Stephen J Wallis, Roman Romero-Ortuno
Feb 15, 2020
The number of older patients admitted to acute hospitals has increased; however, their needs are heterogeneous and there is no gold-standard method of triaging them towards practicing comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). In...
Published by: Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W))