Geriatric Emergency Care

Quality indicators for geriatric emergency care.

OBJECTIVES Emergency departments (EDs), similar to other health care environments, are concerned with improving the quality of patient care. Older patients comprise a large, growing, and particularly vulnerable subset of ED users. The project objective was to develop ED-specific quality indicators for older patients to help practitioners identify quality gaps and focus quality improvement effor...

Geriatric care in the emergency department.

A new model for emergency care of geriatric patients.

The special challenges of geriatric patients in the emergency department (ED) have been discussed for several decades. The unique nature of older patients and the notable challenges of caring for them have been described. Teaching curricula have even been developed for emergency medicine residents and practicing physicians to address these challenges and to optimize quality of care. The importa...

Is geriatric care associated with less emergency department use?

OBJECTIVES To determine whether community-dwelling individuals and nursing home (NH) residents treated by a geriatrician were less likely to use the emergency department (ED) than individuals treated by other physicians. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using data from a national sample of older adults with a history of cardiovascular disease. SETTING Ambulatory care or NH. PARTICIPANTS ...

Geriatric Trauma Care: Challenges Facing Emergency Medical Services

Isaac Chu, BA, MPH*, Federico Vaca, MD, MPH**, Sam Stratton, MD, MPH** Bharath Chakravarthy, MD**, Wirachin Hoonpongsimanont, MD**, Shahram Lotfipour, MD, MPH** *Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Pomona, CA **Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, CA Correspondence: Shahram Lotfipour, MD...