Many emergency departments are currently unable to provide care for geriatric patients that meets best practices and guidelines recommended by several major medical organizations, but a panel ...

Cleveland Clinic’s geriatric emergency department model led to an overall reduction in admissions of older ED patients of 42%, and reduced the odds of admission for older ED observational patients by ...

The Wexner Medical Center’s Geriatric Emergency Department, which focuses on the care of older patients, is the first in the Midwest to achieve Level 1 accreditation — the gold standard for geriatric ...

The four different approaches to establishing geriatric emergency department services vary in the amount of resources required. Over the past five years, four primary models for geriatric emergency ...

The use of an electronic health record (EHR)–based clinical decision support (CDS) system in emergency departments (EDs) increased adherence to geriatric prescribing recommendations for potentially ...

Geriatric emergency departments are being added to hospitals nationwide as COVID-19 and a rapidly aging population illuminate these patients’ vulnerability and distinct needs. An estimated 10,000 baby ...

More emergency departments are helping to manage the care of medically complex older adults. Among older adults, frequent utilizers of the emergency department tend to have multiple comorbidities, ...