Background: In India, spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) by healthcare professionals was initiated in 2010. The drug safety issues for geriatric population are critical due to age-related physiological changes, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics changes. Objective: Our objective was to assess the spontaneous reports of adverse drug reactions, observed in geriatric patient...

Background: A detailed gait analysis (e.g., measures related to speed, self-affinity, stability, and variability) can help to unravel the underlying causes of gait dysfunction, and identify cognitive impairment. However, because geriatric patients present with multiple conditions that also affect gait, results from healthy old adults cannot easily be extrapolated to geriatric patients. Hence, w...

Medical care organization for older patients in geriatric centers is of particular interest due to the increase proportion population Russian Federation. Geriatric experience cognitive, neurological, sensory changes, including decreased vision, hearing, rate reaction, as well increased time assimilation new information. Patients with age-related characteristics may encounter various problems du...

OBJECTIVE to investigate whether the benefits related to a geriatric day hospital programme exceeded the costs, using a cost-benefit analysis based on changes in functional autonomy. DESIGN a quasi-experimental design with a historical cohort as comparison group. SETTING the geriatric day hospital programme at the Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute in the Province of Quebec, Canada. ...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to evaluate emergency medicine physician and nurse acceptance of nonnurse, nonphysician screening for geriatric syndromes. METHODS This was a single-center emergency department (ED) survey of physicians and nurses after an 8-month project. Geriatric technicians were paid medical student research assistants evaluating consenting ED patients older th...

AIM OF DATABASE The aim of the National Database of Geriatrics is to monitor the quality of interdisciplinary diagnostics and treatment of patients admitted to a geriatric hospital unit. STUDY POPULATION The database population consists of patients who were admitted to a geriatric hospital unit. Geriatric patients cannot be defined by specific diagnoses. A geriatric patient is typically a fra...

OBJECTIVE To review the concept, components, and characteristics of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment technique. DATA SOURCES Medline and non-Medline literature search. STUDY SELECTION The following key words were used: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment; all available years of study were reviewed. DATA EXTRACTION Studies that assessed the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment technique...

BACKGROUND Rapid response teams (RRTs) attend severely ill general ward patients whose average 30-day mortality is near 30%. A major part of RRT patients are over 75 years old, but there are no studies on the characteristics and outcome of this geriatric RRT population. We compared the characteristics and outcome of geriatric RRT sub-population with the RRT patients <75 years old. We further in...

BACKGROUND Elderly patients with hip fracture have a 5 to 8 fold increased risk of death during the months following surgery. We tested the hypothesis that early geriatric management of these patients focused on co-morbidities and rehabilitation improved long term mortality. METHODS AND FINDINGS In a cohort study over a 6 year period, we compared patients aged >70 years with hip fracture admi...