Diagnostic accuracy of frailty screening instruments validated for use among older adults attending emergency departments: a systematic review and meta-analysis

E Moloney, MR O'Donovan, D Sezgin… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Early identification of frailty can prevent functional decline. Although multiple frailty screens
exist for use in Emergency Departments (EDs), few are validated against diagnostic …

Emergency medicine in Japan: past, present, and future

K Shimizu, S Hibino, MH Biros, T Irisawa… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Quite a few changes and challenges have arisen in society in general as technology has
advanced and the aging population has increased. These can lead to the recognition of the …

Measuring health-related quality of life of older people with frailty receiving acute care: feasibility and psychometric performance of the EuroQol EQ-5D

JD van Oppen, SP Conroy, TJ Coats… - BMC Emergency …, 2023 - Springer
Background Although outcome goals for acute healthcare among older people living with
frailty often include Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and other patient-reported …

White paper—geriatric emergency medicine education: current state, challenges, and recommendations to enhance the emergency care of older adults

T Ringer, M Dougherty, C McQuown… - AEM education and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Older adults account for 25% of all emergency department (ED) patient encounters. One in
five Americans will be 65 or older by 2030. In response to this need, geriatric emergency …

Predictive ability of a serious game to identify emergency patients with unrecognized delirium

JS Lee, T Tong, MC Tierney, A Kiss… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES Recognition of delirium in the emergency department (ED) is poor. Our
objectives were to assess:(1) the diagnostic accuracy of the Predicting Emergency …

Geriatric emergency medicine: research priorities to respond to “The Silver Boom”

D Melady - Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2018 - cambridge.org
Geriatric EM research is the niche that has become a gaping chasm. There are fascinating
questions to ask and answer about a complex ever-present population. If EM research is …

Silver Book II: An international framework for urgent care of older people in the first 72 hours from illness or injury

CJ Hullick, R McNamara, B Ellis - Age and ageing, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The new edition of the Silver Book, Silver Book II, provides a framework for the urgent care of
older people in the first 72 hours from illness or injury. It incorporates principles of geriatric …

CAM-ICU may not be the optimal screening tool for early delirium screening in older emergency department patients: A prospective cohort study

JA Lucke, J De Gelder, LC Blomaard… - European Journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Delirium is a frequent problem among older patients in the emergency
department (ED) and early detection is important to prevent its associated adverse …

[PDF][PDF] Comment on: geriatric screeners 2.0: time for a paradigm shift in emergency department vulnerability research

P Heeren, E Devriendt, NIH Wellens… - Journal of the …, 2020 - researchgate.net
The conclusions of our study were not intended to propose a moratorium on additional
research aiming to advance geriatric emergency department (ED)“vulnerability” screening …

[HTML][HTML] Triage Tool for Screening Frail Patients in Emergency Department

M Puig-Campmany, M Blázquez-Andión… - Advances in Geriatric …, 2020 - hapres.com
Urgent care for the elderly is a significant health problem, and despite efforts to restrain
demand, many frail old people in need of urgent care must access hospital Emergency …