A Randomized Trial of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Care of Hospitalized Patients
- 18 May 1995
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 332 (20), 1345-1350
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199505183322007
Abstract
Although many studies describe benefits from the comprehensive assessment of elderly patients by an interdisciplinary team (comprehensive geriatric assessment), the most supportive evidence for the process has come from programs that rely on specialized inpatient units and long hospital stays. We examined whether an inpatient geriatric consultation service might also be beneficial in a trial involving four medical centers of a group-practice health maintenance organization (HMO).This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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