Emergency department interventions for frailty (EDIFY): improving functional outcomes in older persons at the emergency department through a multicomponent frailty intervention.

Objectives: emergency department interventions for frailty (EDIFY) delivers frailty-centric interventions at the emergency department (ED). We evaluated the effectiveness of a multicomponent frailty intervention (MFI) in improving functional outcomes among older persons.

Design: a quasi-experimental study.

Emergency Department Interventions for Frailty (EDIFY): Front-Door Geriatric Care Can Reduce Acute Admissions.

Objectives: The EDIFY program was developed to deliver early geriatric specialist interventions at the emergency department (ED) to reduce the number of acute admissions by identifying patients for safe discharge or transfer to low-acuity care settings. We evaluated the effectiveness of EDIFY in reducing potentially avoidable acute admissions.

Design: A quasi-experimental study.

Risk stratification and rapid geriatric screening in an emergency department - a quasi-randomised controlled trial.

Background: To determine if risk stratification followed by rapid geriatric screening in an emergency department (ED) reduced functional decline, ED reattendance and hospitalisation.

Method: This was a quasi-randomised controlled trial. Patients were randomised by the last digit of their national registration identity card (NRIC).

Geriatric assessment and intervention in an emergency department observation unit reduced re-attendance and hospitalisation rates.

Aim: To determine the efficacy of geriatric assessment and intervention in an emergency department observation unit (EDOU).

Methods: This was a single-centre, before/after prospective study. The control group received the usual EDOU care.

Profiling acute presenting symptoms of geriatric patients attending an urban hospital emergency department.

Objective: To study the profile of geriatric patients warded to the emergency department (ED) of an Asian acute care general hospital and determine if they are 'more ill', more likely to have atypical presentations and have a higher utilisation of healthcare resources when compared to a younger group of patients.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective chart review of consecutive patients aged 45 years and above presenting to the study ED over a period of 4 weeks from 4 June 2006 to 1 July 2006. The following data were obtained: (i) demographics, (ii) mode of arrival and triage acuity, (iii) presence of co-morbidities, (iv) investigations ordered in the ED, (v) clinical symptoms and diagnoses, (vi) disposition, (vii) length of hospital stay, (viii) injuries and outcomes of elderly fallers.

Evolution of an emergency department screening questionnaire for severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Objectives: To describe the screening tool that was used to screen for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the three revisions that were made, and the factors that led to these revisions. On March 13, 2003, on receiving notification of an outbreak of atypical pneumonia, nurses from the study emergency department (ED) started screening patients for the disease that became known as SARS.

Methods: The ED nurses started with a simple screening tool that was incorporated into triage.