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- Title
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 Atención Urgente Óptima del Adulto Mayor: Presentación de las Guías Clínicas Geriátricas Multidisciplinares del Servicio de Urgencias del American College of Emergency Physicians, la American Geriatrics Society, la Emergency Nurses Association y la Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
- Authors
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; Cone, David C.
- Abstract
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 a strained health care system. In response, geriatric emergency medicine ( EM) clinicians, educators, and researchers collaborated with the American College of Emergency Physicians ( ACEP), American Geriatrics Society ( AGS), Emergency Nurses Association ( ENA), and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ( SAEM) 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 attribute of the geriatric ED and received formal approval from the boards of directors for each of the four societies in 2013 and 2014. This article is intended to introduce EM and geriatric health care providers to the guidelines, while providing proposals for educational dissemination, refinement via formal effectiveness evaluations and cost-effectiveness studies, and institutional credentialing.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medical services; MEDICAL care; AGE distribution; EMERGENCY medicine; EMERGENCY physicians; GERIATRICS; HEALTH care teams; MEDICAL protocols; MEDICAL societies; PATIENTS; EMERGENCY Nurses Association
- Publication
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 7, p806
- ISSN
1069-6563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/acem.12415