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Geriatric support in the emergency department: a national survey in Belgium.

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Devriendt, Els De Brauwer, Isabelle [UCL] Vandersaenen, Lies Heeren, Pieter Conroy, Simon Boland, Benoît [UCL] Milisen, Koen

BACKGROUND: Older people in the emergency department (ED) represent a growing population and increasing proportion of the workload in the ED. This study investigated the support for frail older people in the ED, by exploring the collaboration between the geriatric services (GS) and the EDs in Belgian hospitals. METHODS: An electronic cross-sectional survey in all Belgian hospitals with an ED (n = 100) about care aspects, collaboration, education and infrastructure for older patients in the ED was collected. Descriptive analyses were performed at national level. RESULTS: Forty-nine of 100 surveys were completed by the GS. The heads of the ED returned only 12 incomplete questionnaires and these results are therefore not reported. Twenty-six of the 49 heads of GSs (53%) indicated that there was an agreement, mainly informal, between the geriatric and the emergency department concerning the management of older people on the ED. A geriatrician was available for specific problems, by phone or in person, in 96% of the EDs during daytime on weekdays. Almost all responding hospitals (96%) had an inpatient geriatric consultation team, of which 85% was available for specific problems at the ED, by phone or bedside during the daytime on weekdays. Twenty-nine heads of the GSs (59%) reported that older patients were screened at ED admission during the day to identify 'at risk' patients. The results of the screening were used in the context of further treatment (76%), to decide on hospital admission (27%), or to justify admission on a geriatric ward (55%). In the year preceding the survey, 25% of the responding hospitals had organised geriatric training for ED healthcare workers. Thirty-four heads of the GS (69%) felt that the infrastructure of the ED was insufficient to give high-quality care for older persons. CONCLUSION: Collaborations between EDs and GS are emerging in Belgium, but are currently rather limited and not yet sufficiently embedded in the ED care. Exploratory studies are necessary to identify how these collaborations can be improved

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2017
Language Anglais
Journal information "BMC Geriatrics" - Vol. 17, no.1, p. 68 [1-8] (2017)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher BioMed Central Ltd. ((United Kingdom) London)
e-issn 1471-2318
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSS/IRSS - Institut de recherche santé et société
UCL - (SLuc) Service de gériatrie
Keywords Emergency department ; Geriatric patients ; Geriatric support ; Survey
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Bibliographic reference Devriendt, Els ; De Brauwer, Isabelle ; Vandersaenen, Lies ; Heeren, Pieter ; Conroy, Simon ; et. al. Geriatric support in the emergency department: a national survey in Belgium.. In: BMC Geriatrics, Vol. 17, no.1, p. 68 [1-8] (2017)
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