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Improving the care for older emergency department patients: the Acutely Presenting Older Patient study
Mooijaart, S.P. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2021 · Heft 3 · S. 97 bis 98
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Acutely ill older people who arrive in the emergency department (ED) are particularly vulnerable, with a high risk of undesired outcomes: loss of independence, loss of quality of life or even death. In the Netherlands, 3 months after over 70-year-old patients visit the ED for any reason around 10% are deceased and another 20% do not functionally recover up to the level prior to ED presentation [1]. Not surprisingly, those who suffer loss of functional capacity also report reduction of quality of life [2].Various factors complicate the care for older people in the ED and contribute to the high risk of adverse out…
Schlagworte
Notfallmedizin
ältere Patienten
geriatrische Versorgung
COVID-19
funktionale Erholung
Screening-Programm
APOP-Studie
Delirium
Pflegequalität
multidisziplinäres Team
Frailty
Gesundheitsrisiken
Aged
Emergency Service
Hospital
Geriatric Assessment
