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Filter by:Study Objectives 1. To gather rich, evocative accounts of older patients aged 65 years and over -who may have felt disorientated in the Accident and Emergency department (A&E) of a district hospital and who received an Intentional Compassionate Communication Intervention (ICCI)- about their personal experience of the A&E 2. To gather rich and evocative accounts of a member of staff who delivers an Intentional Compassionate Communication Intervention (ICCI) to older people in the A&E of a district hospital about their personal experience of doing so.
This cluster randomized controlled pilot study is designed to test the feasibility, and potential effect of a multicomponent, community-based intervention aiming to improve quality of life (QoL) and function for older patients receiving radiotherapy (RT), and thereby reduce the needs for professional help. The intervention will be based on geriatric assessment and management (GAM), i.e. systematic assessment and management of physical, mental and functional problems frequently occurring in the elderly. It will target individual patients according to needs and be carried out in collaboration between hospital and community services from start of RT until 8 weeks post-treatment.
Frailty is prevalent in older adults and may be a better predictor of post-operative morbidity and mortality than chronological age. Preoperative risk factors and physiological reserves were assessed on patients more than 70 years old who are scheduled for surgery under general or regional anesthesia. The aim of this retrospective analysis was to examine the impact of relevant geriatric assessments on adverse outcomes in older surgical patients.
In this trial, the feasibility of cooperation between clinical pharmacists and physicians by conducting a telephone follow-up conversation between the hospital geriatrician, the general practitioner and the clinical pharmacist is evaluated. During hospital stay the clinical pharmacist and the geriatrician will review older patients' medication and discuss the future treatment with the general practitioner after discharge by telephone or medico-technology. The first part of the feasibility study will be a qualitative baseline measure of characteristics of the participants and work flow. The second part will be a pilot randomized controlled study where participants will be allocated to either usual care or medication review and follow up contact
To investigate whether single-bed rooms can prevent and reduce incidence and duration of delirium compared to multi-bed rooms in elderly patients admitted to a geriatric department. In addition, it is investigated whether single-bed rooms reduce the use of psychotropic drugs, opioids, parenteral medication, fixed guard, falls, hospitalization and discharge to institution among delirious patients. Furthermore, to study if delirium is associated with of re-hospitalization, traumatic fall, institutionalization and death within 30 days, compared to those who do not develop delirium.