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Effectiveness of in-hospital geriatric co-management: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Age & Ageing . Nov2017, Vol. 46 Issue 6, p903-910. 8p. 1 Diagram, 2 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Background: geriatric consultation teams have failed to impact clinical outcomes prompting geriatric co-management programmes to emerge as a promising strategy to manage frail patients on non-geriatric wards. Objective: to conduct a systematic review of the effectiveness of in-hospital geriatric co-management. Data sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and CENTRAL were searched from inception to 6 May 2016. Reference lists, trial registers and PubMed Central Citations were additionally searched. Study selection: randomised controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies of in-hospital patients included in a geriatric co-management study. Two investigators performed the selection process independently. Data extraction: standardised data extraction and assessment of risk of bias were performed independently by two investigators. Results: twelve studies and 3,590 patients were included from six randomised and six quasi-experimental studies. Geriatric co-management improved functional status and reduced the number of patients with complications in three of the four studies, but studies had a high risk of bias and outcomes were measured heterogeneously and could not be pooled. Co- management reduced the length of stay (pooled mean difference, -1.88 days [95% CI, -2.44 to -1.33]; 11 studies) and may reduce in-hospital mortality (pooled odds ratio, 0.72 [95% CI, 0.50-1.03]; 7 studies). Meta-analysis identified no effect on the number of patients discharged home (5 studies), post-discharge mortality (3 studies) and readmission rate (4 studies). Conclusions: there was low-quality evidence of a reduced length of stay and a reduced number of patients with complica- tions, and very low-quality evidence of better functional status as a result of geriatric co-management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- *TREATMENT effectiveness
*ELDER care
*HOSPITAL care of older people
*CINAHL database
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*LENGTH of stay in hospitals
*MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems
*LIFE skills
*MEDLINE
*META-analysis
*ONLINE information services
*SYSTEMATIC reviews
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*ODDS ratio
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00020729
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Age & Ageing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125888809
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx051