Inpatient community-based geriatric assessment reduces subsequent mortality.

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of an Inpatient Geriatric Consultation Team on patient outcome. DESIGN: Randomized controlled clinical trial. SETTING: A non-academic-affiliated 503-bed community hospital. PATIENTS: All inpatients over the age of 70 years. Sixty-two patients received multidimensional geriatric assessment, and 58 patients received no intervention. INTERVENTION: Team assessment, leading to formal recommendations to the attending physician. MEASUREMENTS: Data were collected on hospital length of stay, referrals to community service, discharge destination, hospital readmissions in 6 months, number of post-discharge physician visits, and change in functional status. Mortality at 6 months and at 1 year was determined for each patient. MAIN RESULTS: At 6 months, 12/58 patients (21%) had died in the control group versus 3/62 (6%) patients in the experimental group (P = 0.01). During hospitalization, the length-of-stay was 10.1 days for the control group versus 9.0 days for the experimental group (P = 0.20). The control group had significantly more readmissions (0.6 per patient vs 0.3 per patient, P = 0.02). A higher number of experimental patients, 22% (13/59), showed improvement in ADL scores compared with 7% (4/46) of control patients, P = 0.07. At one year for all randomized patients, 7/68 (10%) of experimental patients and 13/64 (20%) of control patients had died. CONCLUSIONS: Short-term mortality can be reduced in community inpatient acute hospital settings by comprehensive geriatric consultation teams. Important differences in mortality remain at 1 year of followup. Trends towards improved functional status and fewer hospital readmissions favor the intervention group.

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

VOLUME: 41

Page Numbers: 101-4

Journal Abbreviation: J Am Geriatr Soc

ISSN: 0002-8614

DAY: 10

MONTH: Feb

YEAR: 1993

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AFFILIATION: Section on Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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