Clinical Trial: Patient Experience of CFS-assessment in the ED
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Frailty in Aging
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: Understanding the Patient Experience of Geriatric Assessment in the Emergency Department
Brief Summary:
An increasingly common subject of interest among emergency care research is frailty, which is commonly described as a decline in several inter-related physiological systems, in addition to an increased vulnerability to stressors.To increase emergency care staffs ability to intervene appropriately in patients who need interventions to improve their outcomes, geriatric emergency care guidelines include recommendations to identify frailty during the emergency department (ED) visit.However, the patients´ experience of…
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