Publications by authors named "Ralf Sultzer"
Article Synopsis
- - The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) requires hospitals to use a geriatric screening tool called GeriNOT during inpatient care, particularly for patients with hip fractures, to identify potential health risks.
- - A study evaluated the effectiveness of GeriNOT on 821 geriatric patients (average age 81), examining their needs for post-inpatient care and risk for readmission, with a focus on different injury types.
- - Results indicated that all groups had GeriNOT scores above the critical threshold, with the hip fracture patients having the highest average score, suggesting higher vulnerability that could benefit from targeted intervention.
Purpose: Mobile health (mHealth) applications offer structured and timely communication between patients and general practitioners (GPs) about adverse drug reactions (ADR). Preconditions, functionalities and barriers should be studied to ensure safe implementation.
Methods: We performed a cross-sectional questionnaire survey addressing (i) preconditions, (ii) users' assessment of functionalities and (iii) barriers to mHealth managing ADR communication.
Background: Geriatric-specific characteristics influence patient-relevant outcomes of inpatient hospital care in patients aged 70 years and older: prolonged length of stay, complications, increase in utilization of required services as well as mortality rates.
Objective: The screening tool GeriNOT, identification of geriatric risk potential with 7 items, of which mobility and cognition are double-weighted, score 9 points, was tested for its predictive content and diagnostic quality.
Material And Methods: Diagnostic study from a retrospective, bicentric complete survey in all types of admission from 70 years with 2541 patient cases.
Background: Potential additive effects of polypharmacy are rarely considered in adverse events of geriatric patients living in long-term care facilities. Our aim, therefore, was to identify adverse events in this setting and to assess plausible concomitant drug causes.
Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was performed in three facilities as follows: (i) adverse event identification: we structurally identified adverse events using nurses' interviews and chart review.
Background Drug-related problems (DRPs) endanger geriatric patients' safety. Especially a follow-up treatment with increased number of care transitions is a critical time for patients. Objective This study aimed at optimising medication therapy and the transfer of medication-related information to ambulatory care in geriatric rehabilitation patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Geriatric patients bear a high risk for having drug-related problems (DRPs). Transitions of care are especially susceptible to these DRPs.
Objective: To highlight the prevalence of DRPs in geriatric patients' post-discharge medication lists and to assess physicians' ability to identify DRPs by using clinical case scenarios.