TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal older adult emergency care
T2 - Introducing multidisciplinary Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines from the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
AU - Carpenter, Christopher R.
AU - Bromley, Marilyn
AU - Caterino, Jeffrey M.
AU - Chun, Audrey
AU - Gerson, Lowell W.
AU - Greenspan, Jason
AU - Hwang, Ula
AU - John, David P.
AU - Lyons, William L.
AU - Platts-Mills, Timothy F.
AU - Mortensen, Betty
AU - Ragsdale, Luna
AU - Rosenberg, Mark
AU - Wilber, Scott
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - In the United States and around the world, effective, efficient, and reliable strategies to provide emergency care to aging adults is challenging crowded emergency departments (EDs) and a strained health care system. In response, geriatric emergency medicine (EM) clinicians, educators, and researchers collaborated with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American Geriatrics Society (AGS), Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) to develop guidelines intended to improve ED geriatric care by enhancing expertise, educational, and quality improvement expectations; equipment; policies; and protocols. These "Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines" represent the first formal society-led attempt to characterize the essential attribute of the geriatric ED and received formal approval from the boards of directors for each of the four societies in 2013 and 2014. This article is intended to introduce EM and geriatric health care providers to the guidelines, while providing proposals for educational dissemination, refinement via formal effectiveness evaluations and cost-effectiveness studies, and institutional credentialing.
AB - In the United States and around the world, effective, efficient, and reliable strategies to provide emergency care to aging adults is challenging crowded emergency departments (EDs) and a strained health care system. In response, geriatric emergency medicine (EM) clinicians, educators, and researchers collaborated with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American Geriatrics Society (AGS), Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) to develop guidelines intended to improve ED geriatric care by enhancing expertise, educational, and quality improvement expectations; equipment; policies; and protocols. These "Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines" represent the first formal society-led attempt to characterize the essential attribute of the geriatric ED and received formal approval from the boards of directors for each of the four societies in 2013 and 2014. This article is intended to introduce EM and geriatric health care providers to the guidelines, while providing proposals for educational dissemination, refinement via formal effectiveness evaluations and cost-effectiveness studies, and institutional credentialing.
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U2 - 10.1111/acem.12415
DO - 10.1111/acem.12415
M3 - Article
C2 - 25117158
AN - SCOPUS:84905636476
SN - 1069-6563
VL - 21
SP - 806
EP - 809
JO - Academic Emergency Medicine
JF - Academic Emergency Medicine
IS - 7
ER -