Ability of Emergency Department Physicians Using a Functional Autonomy-Assessing Version of the Triage Risk Screening Tool to Detect Frail Older Patients Who Require Mobile Geriatric Team Consultation.

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Date publication

janvier 2020

Journal

The journal of nutrition, health & aging

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr GOETZ Christophe

Tous les auteurs :
Piffer I, Goetz C, Zevering Y, André E, Bourouis Z, Blettner N

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32510117

Résumé

Frailty in older people associates with poor outcomes. Screening by ED physicians would greatly facilitate detection of frail older patients but our previous attempt to introduce routine ED-physician screening with Short Emergency Geriatric Assessment (SEGA), a 13-item frailty tool that French geriatricians use to identify frail patients, failed due to its length and complexity. A national committee recently generated a new version of the fast and simple 5-item Triage Risk Screening Tool (TRST) in which a subjective item ('nurse concern') was replaced by an item assessing basic activities of daily living. The ability of ED physicians using this French-TRST to accurately detect frail patients who require comprehensive geriatric assessment was assessed.