Clinical Trial: Evaluation of Prioritized Assessment for Older Patients Living With Frailty Presenting to the Emergency Department
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Frailty
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: Evaluation of Prioritized Assessment for Older Patients Living With Frailty Presenting to the Emergency Department
Brief Summary:
The older population is getting older and growing in size worldwide.This requires healthcare to adapt to meet the complex medical and nursing needs of the older patient group.As older patients have varying health conditions with different levels of functions, their premise to handle acute, unexpected illness differs as well.This complicates matters for healthcare, especially emergency departments (ED) where resource allocation and identifying patients that are at greatest risk of negative health outcomes must be…
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