Handing Off the Older Patient: Improved Documentation of Geriatric Assessment in Transitions of Care.

Objectives: To improve assessment and documentation of function, cognition, and advance care planning (ACP) in admission and discharge notes on an Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) unit.

Design: Continuous quality improvement intervention with episodic data review.

Setting: ACE unit of an 866-bed academic tertiary hospital.