The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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J Nutr Health Aging · Feb 2016
Risk of Unplanned Emergency Department Readmission after an Acute-Care Hospital Discharge among Geriatric Inpatients: Results from the Geriatric EDEN Cohort Study.
The study aims 1) to examine whether items of the brief geriatric assessment (BGA) or their combinations predicted the risk of unplanned emergency department readmission after an acute care hospital discharge among geriatric inpatients, and 2) to determine whether BGA could be used as a prognostic tool for unplanned emergency department readmission. ⋯ The items of BGA and their combinations were significant risk factors for unplanned emergency department readmission, but their prognostic value was poor.
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To investigate the predictive validity of the short, simple FRAIL-NH frailty screening tool in the long term care population and to then compare the predictive validity with the frailty index (FI) for 6-month adverse health outcomes. ⋯ In comparison to the FI, the FRAIL-NH preformed just as well at screening for frailty and was a slightly better predictor of adverse outcomes. The FRAIL-NH is a brief, easy-to-administer frailty screening tool appropriate for long term care patients and predicts increased risk of falls in the pre-frail and mortality/hospice enrollment in the frail.