Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians position statement on care of older people in Canadian Emergency Departments: executive summary

Collaborators, Affiliations

CAEP Writing Group:
Patrick M Archambault, Tahara Bhate, Patrick E Boreskie, Savannah Forrester, El Kebir Ghandour, Judah Goldstein, Alice Gray, Osama Loubani, Eric Mercier, Fabrice I Mowbray, Thom Ringer, Rebecca Schonnop, Christopher Skappak

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 103 Hospital Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W8, Canada. B.Ellis@usask.ca.
² Département de médecine familiale et de médecine d'urgence, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Review

Brittany Ellis et al. CJEM. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;24(4):376-381.

doi: 10.1007/s43678-022-00315-y. Epub 2022 May 9.

CAEP Writing Group:
Patrick M Archambault, Tahara Bhate, Patrick E Boreskie, Savannah Forrester, El Kebir Ghandour, Judah Goldstein, Alice Gray, Osama Loubani, Eric Mercier, Fabrice I Mowbray, Thom Ringer, Rebecca Schonnop, Christopher Skappak

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 103 Hospital Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W8, Canada. B.Ellis@usask.ca.
² Département de médecine familiale et de médecine d'urgence, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

No abstract available

References

1. Latham LP, Ackroyd-Stolarz S. Emergency department utilization by older adults: a descriptive study. Can Geriatr J. 2014;17(4):118–25. https://doi.org/10.5770/cgj.17.108 . - DOI - PubMed - PMC
1. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Ageing—2015. 2015. https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/agein... . Accessed 31 Mar 2021
1. Schumacher JG, Hirshon JM, Magidson P, Chrisman M, Hogan T. Tracking the rise of geriatric emergency departments in the United States. J Appl Gerontol. 2020;39(8):871–9. - DOI
1. Flaherty E, Hyer K, Fulmer T. Chapter 26. Team care. In: Halter JB, Ouslander JG, Tinetti ME, Studenski S, High KP, Asthana S, editors. Hazzard’s geriatric medicine and gerontology, 6e. McGraw-Hill; 2010. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=371§ionid=41587600
1. Hickman LD, Phillips JL, Newton PJ, Halcomb EJ, Al Abed N, Davidson PM. Multidisciplinary team interventions to optimise health outcomes for older people in acute care settings: a systematic review. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2015;61(3):322–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2015.06.021 . - DOI - PubMed