STUDY OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review on the effectiveness of emergency
department (ED)–based care coordination interventions. METHODS: We reviewed any …

Australian emergency departments are experiencing an increasing demand for their
services. Patient throughput continues to expand resulting in overcrowding and access …

Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education began an initiative
in 1998 to improve resident physicians' ability to provide quality patient care and to work …

Background Patients aged 75 years and older represent 12% of the overall emergency
department (ED) population, and this proportion will increase over the next decades. Many …

Background Older adults frequently attend the emergency department (ED) and experience
high rates of adverse events following ED presentation. This randomised controlled trial …

Objectives Individual‐level social needs have been shown to substantially impact
emergency department (ED) care transitions of older adults. The Geriatric Emergency care …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We inform the future development of a new geriatric emergency
management practice model. We perform a systematic review of the existing evidence for …

Background Dedicated Health and Social Care Professional (HSCP) teams have been
proposed for emergency departments (EDs) in an effort to improve patient and process …

For the last 25 years, there have been mounting concerns that ED's fast-paced environment
is not suitable to meet the care needs of the ever-increasing older population. This paper …

Study objective To summarize interventions that impact the experience of older adults in the
emergency department (ED) as measured by patient experience instruments. Methods This …