Evaluation of a screening program for older adults visiting the Emergency Department
Recruiting
- Conditions
- EN: older patients, emergency department, geriatric emergency medicine, functional decline, mortality, cognitive impairment, screening, implementationNL: acuut presenterende oudere patiënt, spoedeisende hulp, functionele achteruitgang, mortaliteit, cognitieve beperkingen, screening, implementatie
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON23854
- Lead Sponsor
- eiden University Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 2000
Inclusion Criteria
All consecutive ED patients aged 70 years and older.
Patients are included 2 months before and 2 months after implementation of the APOP screening program.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Reach and adherence of implementation.<br /><br /><br><br>To evaluate reach we will investigate patient centered factors of implementation, i.e. the screening rate, the representativeness of the patients who were reached with screening and how consistently the different parts of the program are achieved. To evaluate adherence we will investigate organisation and staff centered factors of implementation, i.e. ED crowding and staff numbers.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ED length of stay, patient satisfaction, awareness of care providers, hospital admissions, ED revisits, hospital LOS, 90 day mortality.