Optimal older adult emergency care: Introducing multidisciplinary geriatric emergency department guidelines from the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
*Practice Guidelines as Topic; Aged; AMERICAN College of Emergency Physicians; AMERICAN Geriatrics Society; ELDER care; EMERGENCY medical services; EMERGENCY medical services – Standards; EMERGENCY medicine; Emergency Medicine – Standards; Emergency Medicine/*standards; EMERGENCY Nurses Association; Emergency Service; Emergency Service – Standards; GERIATRICS; Geriatrics – Standards; Geriatrics/*standards; HEALTH care teams; Hospital/standards; Humans; Interdisciplinary Communication; Interprofessional Relations; Medical; Medical Organizations; MEDICAL protocols; OLD age; PATIENTS; Practice Guidelines; QUALITY assurance; Societies; SOCIETY for Academic Emergency Medicine (U.S.); United States
Carpenter Christopher R; Bromley Marilyn; Caterino Jeffrey M; Chun Audrey; Gerson Lowell W; Greenspan Jason; Hwang Ula; John David P; Lyons William L; Platts-Mills Timothy F; Mortensen Betty; Ragsdale Luna; Rosenberg Mark; Wilber Scott T
Annals of emergency medicine
2014
2014-05
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.03.002" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.03.002</a>
Optimal Older Adult Emergency Care: Introducing Multidisciplinary Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines from the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic...
Aged; Quality Improvement; Practice Guidelines; Emergency Patients; Multidisciplinary Care Team; American College of Emergency Physicians; American Geriatrics Society; Emergency Nurses Association; Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; Emergency Medicine – Standards; Geriatrics – Standards; Emergency Care – Standards – In Old Age; Gerontologic Care – Standards
In the United States and around the world, effective, efficient, and reliable strategies to provide emergency care to aging adults is challenging crowded emergency departments ( EDs) and strained healthcare systems. In response, geriatric emergency medicine clinicians, educators, and researchers collaborated with the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine to develop guidelines intended to improve ED geriatric care by enhancing expertise, educational, and quality improvement expectations, equipment, policies, and protocols. These Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines represent the first formal society-led attempt to characterize the essential attributes of the geriatric ED and received formal approval from the boards of directors of each of the four societies in 2013 and 2014. This article is intended to introduce emergency medicine and geriatric healthcare providers to the guidelines while providing recommendations for continued refinement of these proposals through educational dissemination, formal effectiveness evaluations, cost-effectiveness studies, and eventually institutional credentialing.
Carpenter Christopher R; Bromley Marilyn; Caterino Jeffrey M; Chun Audrey; Gerson Lowell W; Greenspan Jason; Hwang Ula; John David P; Lyons William L; Platts-Mills Timothy F; Mortensen Betty; Ragsdale Luna; Rosenberg Mark; Wilber Scott T
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
2014
2014-07
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.12883" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/jgs.12883</a>
Optimal Older Adult Emergency Care: Introducing Multidisciplinary Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines From the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic...
Age Factors; Physicians; Emergency Medicine; Practice Guidelines; Medical Organizations; Multidisciplinary Care Team; Emergency Nurses Association; Geriatrics; Emergency; Patient Care – Methods; Emergency Care – Methods
Carpenter Christopher R; Bromley Marilyn; Caterino Jeffrey M; Chun Audrey; Gerson Lowell W; Greenspan Jason; Hwang Ula; John David P; Lyons William L; Platts-Mills Timothy F; Mortensen Betty; Ragsdale Luna; Rosenberg Mark; Wilber Scott T
Academic Emergency Medicine
2014
2014-07
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/acem.12415" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/acem.12415</a>
Geriatric emergency medicine and the 2006 Institute of Medicine reports from the Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. health system.
*National Academies of Science; *Population Dynamics; 80 and over; Aged; and Medicine (U.S.) Health and Medicine Division; Disaster Planning; Emergency Service; Engineering; Health Policy/*trends; Health Services for the Aged/*trends; Hospital/*trends; Humans; United States
Three recently published Institute of Medicine reports, Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point, Emergency Medical Services: At the Crossroads, and Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains, examined the current state of emergency care in the United States. They concluded that the emergency medicine system as a whole is overburdened, underfunded, and highly fragmented. These reports did not specifically discuss the effect the aging population has on emergency care now and in the future and did not discuss special needs of older patients. This report focuses on the emergency care of older patients, with the intent to provide information that will help shape discussions on this issue.
Wilber Scott T; Gerson Lowell W; Terrell Kevin M; Carpenter Christopher R; Shah Manish N; Heard Kennon; Hwang Ula
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
2006
2006-12
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1197/j.aem.2006.09.050" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1197/j.aem.2006.09.050</a>