Development of the Department of Medicine for the Elderly Liaison Team

Autor:	Adam L. Gordon, Tanujah Shah, Elinor Burn, Frances Grant, B J Evans
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	business.industry medicine.medical_treatment education Nurse consultant Audit Specialist registrar medicine.disease Clinical Older patients Emergency surgery Laparotomy medicine Medical emergency business Older people Acute hospital
Zdroj:	Future Healthcare Journal. 6:3-3
ISSN:	2514-6653 2514-6645
DOI:	10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s3
Popis:	To improve the care of patients with complexity, multimorbidity and frailty within the acute hospital, through the development of a specialist liaison team. Older people undergoing emergency surgery encounter more postoperative medical problems. The National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) includes the process measure that patients over 70 should have access to specialists in the care of older patients. This led to the collaboration between critical care and surgical teams and development of the liaison service – a consultant geriatrician, specialist registrar and nurse consultant. This began an integrated way of working to improve care for emergency laparotomy patients over 70. …
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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