Publications by authors named "M Mark Lodge"
Purpose: Hospital surgical services that utilise the approach of the perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS) model of care improve outcomes for older people contemplating and undergoing surgery. Complex models of care like POPS may be difficult to implement without understanding the elements that comprise that model of care. Logic models can be used to aid implementation by visually depicting theoretical relationships between the elements of the model of care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recent evidence suggests that frailty may be a more reliable measure than age to predict outcomes following trauma. Frailty leads to prolonged hospitalisation and increased burden on the hospital system in older patients. The aim of this study is to review the prevalence of frailty in our trauma patients and the association of frailty with hospital-based and twelve-month outcomes.
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- A study was conducted at Children's Hospital Los Angeles to examine the impact of home health nursing (HHN) on hospital readmissions in children aged 0-21 who underwent tracheostomy placement between December 2016 and February 2023.
- Among 130 participants, 57% received HHN after discharge, and the overall 30-day hospital readmission rate was 14.6%.
- The results indicated that HHN did not affect readmission rates for those on home mechanical ventilation, but it significantly reduced readmissions for kids not using HMV, suggesting HHN can help in the transition from hospital to home care.
Objectives: To review the epidemiology of elderly trauma at the Kind Saud Medical City (KSMC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and carry out risk-adjusted analyses to benchmark outcomes with the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, the largest Australasian trauma service.
Methods: This retrospective study included records of injured patients (≥65 years) from the hospital trauma registries during 2022. Demographic and injury data were extracted.
Objective: This study aimed to translate previous implementation science research describing the implementation of perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS) services into a format that is comprehensible and relevant to clinical leaders contemplating implementing a POPS service.
Methods: We conducted a multistage expert end-user review process to design a POPS implementation guide. Our expert research team created a draft POPS service implementation guide using previous implementation science research that described the core elements and implementation of a POPS service.