Íde O'Shaughnessy, Katie Robinson, Aoife Whiston, Louise Barry, Gillian Corey, Collette Devlin, Deirdre Hartigan, Aoife Synnott, Aoife McCarthy, Eoin Moriarty, Bryan Jones, Ida Carroll, Denys Shchetkovsky, Margaret O'Connor, Fiona Steed, Leonora Carey, Mairéad Conneely, Aoife Leahy, Colin Quinn, Elaine Shanahan, Damien Ryan, Rose Galvin
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to explore the process, clinical, and patient-reported outcomes of older adults who received an interdisciplinary Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in the emergency department (ED) over a six-month period after their initial ED attendance. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A prospective cohort study recruited older adults aged ≥65 years who presented to the ED of a university teaching hospital in Ireland. Baseline assessment data comprising a battery of demographic variables and validated indices were obtained at the index ED attendance...
2024: Clinical Interventions in Aging