Using clinical signs of neglect to identify elder neglect cases
| Autor: | Lee S. Friedman, Holly Zielke, Daniel Friedman, Olivia Patch, Renee Partida, Barbara Giloth, Susan Avila, Lois Moorman, Elaine Liu, Kimberly Dixon, Wendy Meltzer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Delphi Technique media_common.quotation_subject Delphi method Elder Abuse Neglect 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Electronic health record medicine Electronic Health Records Humans Screening tool 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry media_common Aged business.industry Medical setting 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Elder abuse Decision Support Systems Clinical Hospitalization Scale (social sciences) Residence Female Geriatrics and Gerontology business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Journal of elder abuseneglect. 29(4) |
| ISSN: | 1540-4129 |
| Popis: | Elder neglect is the one of the most pervasive forms of mistreatment, and often the only place outside of the individual's residence to identify and assist neglected individuals is in a medical setting. However, elder neglect cases treated in hospitals do not present with a single diagnosis or clinical sign, but rather involve a complex constellation of clinical signs. Currently, there is a lack of comprehensive guidelines on which clinical signs to use in screening tools for neglect among patients treated in hospitals. Using the DELPHI method, a group of experts developed and tested a scale to be used as a pre-screener that conceptually could be integrated into electronic health record systems so that it could identify potential neglect cases in an automated manner. By applying the scale as a pre-screener for neglect, the tool would reduce the pool of at-risk patients who would benefit from in-depth screening for elder neglect by 95%. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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