RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Acute geriatrics at the front door
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 350
OP 353
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-4-350
VO 17
IS 4
A1 Simon Conroy
A1 Stuart Parker
YR 2017
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/17/4/350.abstract
AB Older people with frailty and urgent care needs are major uses of health and social care services. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is an evidence-based approach to improving their outcomes, as well as improving service outcomes. Geriatricians form a small proportion of the overall workforce and cannot address the population need alone, so all clinicians (doctors, nurses, therapists and so on) need to engage in delivering CGA as a process of care, underpinned by specific competencies – which can be developed. Delivery of this care pathway needs to be measured and improved as rigorously as campaigns like those for improving sepsis or eradicating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.