Geriatric consultation teams are one of the models for bringing comprehensive geriatric assessment to vulnerable and frail older people in the acute care hospital setting. While ward-based comprehensive geriatric assessment has been established as effective with reference to improving functional status and other outcomes, the team-based variant remains unproven for outcomes other than mortality...

OBJECTIVES To study whether geriatric patients with mild-to-moderate hyponatremia (≤131 mmol/l) reveal different outcomes in structured tests for functional and cognitive impairments, depression and malnutrition compared to normonatremic patients. DESIGN Single-center, retrospective case control study. SETTING The study was conducted in a Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit of a Depart...

The geriatric assessment is a multidimensional, multidisciplinary assessment designed to evaluate an older person's functional ability, physical health, cognition and mental health, and socioenvironmental circumstances. It is usually initiated when the physician identifies a potential problem. Specific elements of physical health that are evaluated include nutrition, vision, hearing, fecal and ...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of a vertically integrated curriculum intervention on the geriatric knowledge and performance in clinical skills of thirdyear medical students. This observational cohort study conducted at the University of Michigan Medical School evaluates the performance of 622 third-year medical students from the graduating class years of 2004 through 2...

Health technology This paper compared three approaches to the management of elderly hospitalised patients: 1. Intervention, i.e. comprehensive geriatric assessment with additional in-hospital and post-discharge follow-up by an interdisciplinary home intervention team. 2. Assessment, i.e. comprehensive geriatric assessment alone with recommendations, followed by usual care at home. 3. Control, i...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to identify treating physicians' general experiences and expectations regarding geriatric assessment (GA) in older patients with cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey was carried out in 9 Belgian hospitals, which participated in a national GA implementation project focusing on older patients with cancer. A newly developed questionnaire was completed by the...