Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)
Optimal management of elderly cancer patients: usefulness of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
... CGA, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment; CS, cross-sectional study; P, prospective observational study; CRC, colorectal cancer; GI, gastrointestinal cancer; GI non-CRC, gastrointestinal cancer other ...
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Ability of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment to Detect Frailty
... of comprehensive geriatric assessment to detect frailty in elderly ...a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in- cluding: (history and full clinical examination, Mini mental ...
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Effects of comprehensive geriatric assessment on physical fitness in an acute medical setting for frail elderly patients
... Introduction: Frail elderly people often use emergency care. During hospitalization, physical decline is common, implying an increased risk of adverse health outcomes. Comprehensive Geriatric ...
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Acute medical unit comprehensive geriatric assessment intervention study (AMIGOS)
... Unit Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Intervention Study; AMU: Acute Medical Unit; CGA: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment; CQLI-R: Caregiver Quality of Life Index- Revised; ...
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The Frailty Instrument for primary care of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe predicts mortality similarly to a frailty index based on comprehensive geriatric assessment
... Aim—frailty is an emerging concept in primary care, which potentially can provide healthcare commissioners with a clinical focus for targeting resources at an ageing population. However, primary care practitioners need ...
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Effect of in hospital comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in older people with hip fracture : the protocol of the Trondheim Hip Fracture Trial
... a geriatric evaluation and management service significantly reduced mortality and also improved patients ’ chances of living at home ...from comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in the ...
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How best to deliver Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) on a hospital wide basis: an umbrella review
... Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is often defined as ‘a multidimensional, interdisciplinary diagnostic process to determine the medical, psychological, and functional capabilities of a frail ...
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A randomised clinical trial on a comprehensive geriatric assessment and intensive home follow up after hospital discharge: the Transitional Care Bridge
... (CGA): comprehensive geriatric assessment; (CN): community care nurse; (CNS): clinical nurse specialist in geriatrics; (DEFENCE): Develop strategies Enabling Frail Elders New Complications to Evade; ...
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Knee extension strength measurements should be considered as part of the comprehensive geriatric assessment
... 13]. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a multi-dimensional, inter-discip- linary diagnostic process for older adults to determine a range of health characteristics (physical, functional, ...
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Comprehensive geriatric assessment predicts mortality and adverse outcomes in hospitalized older adults
... Recent studies have also investigated the use of CGA as a prognostic instrument and concluded that several of its components are cornerstones for clinical decision- making [12,51,52]. Our model proved valuable precisely ...
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Comprehensive geriatric assessment prediction of postoperative complications in gastrointestinal cancer patients: a meta-analysis
... (“comprehensive geriatric assessment” OR “CGA”) AND (“stomach” OR “gastric” OR “colon” OR “rectal” OR “col- orectal” OR “gastrointestinal”) AND (“cancer” OR “tumor” OR “neoplasms” OR ...
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Performance of a brief geriatric evaluation compared to a comprehensive geriatric assessment for detection of geriatric syndromes in family medicine: a prospective diagnostic study
... The BAT’s performance for detecting geriatric syndromes compared to a comprehensive geriatric assessment was satisfactory for most syndromes. Sensitivity was within the prespecified range ...
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Comprehensive geriatric assessment in the emergency department
... people’s assessment and management in the ED can be complex, time consuming, and require specialist ...multidimensional assessment and management by multidisciplinary specialist care teams ...
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Comprehensive geriatric assessment on an acute medical unit : a qualitative study of older people’s and informal carer’s perspectives of the care and treatment received
... the comprehensive geriatric assessment process on acute medical ...the comprehensive geriatric assessment in patients due to be discharged in addition to the treatment routinely ...
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Costs of medication in older patients: before and after comprehensive geriatric assessment
... Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scales were given to those who were illiterate older people, to those who had education under 11 years, and had education over 11 years, ...Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale ...
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Association of pre-operative medication use with post-operative delirium in surgical oncology patients receiving comprehensive geriatric assessment
... prehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is used to assess medication review in addition to comorbidities, func- tional status, cognitive function, nutritional status, and socioeconomic issues ...
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Cost-effectiveness of comprehensive geriatric assessment at an ambulatory geriatric unit based on the AGe-FIT trial
... The main data source for the present study, the AGe- FIT trial, has been reported in detail elsewhere [8, 9, 12]. In brief, the AGe-FIT trial was randomized, controlled, assessor-blinded, and carried out in the ...
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The contribution of comprehensive geriatric assessment to primary care physicians
... All PCPs who had referred at least six patients for CGA in the year prior to the study (2008) were eligible to participate in the survey. This number was chosen as an indicator that the PCPs were familiar with the CGA ...
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The effects of a life goal-setting technique in a preventive care program for frail community-dwelling older people: a cluster nonrandomized controlled trial
... The design of this cluster nonrandomized controlled trial resulted in a few problems in estimating required group size and number. We used slightly different outcome mea- sures from previous studies, which made it harder ...
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Conservative interventions for incontinence in people with dementia or cognitive impairment, living at home: a systematic review
... of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) combined with such a multi-component management approach to incontinence in 112 frail, community dwell- ing patients, of whom 30% had dementia ...
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