Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.—(anonymous
government researcher c. 1968) The segment of the American population 65 years and …

Although team‐oriented geriatric assessment clinics are growing throughout the country,
little documentation exists regarding their clinical efficacy, cost‐effectiveness, or impact on …

Objectives To determine whether an interprofessional intervention would improve the use
and timing of a geriatric consultation on a hospitalist service. Design Difference‐in …

Certainly the strength of geriatrics in the last 2 years has been the acceptance by the
medical community at large of the utility of geriatric assessment techniques. The benefits of …

Objectives To design a value‐driven, interprofessional inpatient geriatric consultation
program coordinated with systems‐level changes and studied outcomes and costs. Design …

Back‐up of elderly patients in hospital awaiting long‐term placement has become a major
problem in some areas of the United States and elsewhere. In 1982, geriatric consultation …

BACKGROUND: The proportion and absolute number of older patients presenting to
emergency departments (EDs) are increasing. Older ED patients tend to have multiple …

Few specialties of medicine have felt the need to ldocument their effectiveness prior to
setting up consultation services; effectiveness of specific interventions or treatments, yes, but …

Objective To evaluate the effect of an Inpatient Geriatric Consultation Team on patient
outcome. Design Randomized controlled clinical trial. Setting A non‐academic‐affiliated 503 …

This editorial comments on the article by Wismann et al.