ArticleAcademic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine2021
Care transitions and social needs: A Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) Network scoping review and consensus statement.
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- Discharge instruction comprehension by older adults in the emergency department: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- Emergency Department-Initiated Hospice and Palliative Care Consultation Among Older Adults: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Association of Geriatric Emergency Department Care With Hospitalization and Mortality in Older Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Standardization Study (GEARSS): An Observational Study of Older Emergency Department Patients.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Observational
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- Development and validation of the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure-Older adult care Transitions from the Emergency Department (PROM-OTED) tool.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- A Model for Developing Subspecialty Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2025Article
- Development and Pilot Testing of an Artificial Intelligence and Care Coach Intervention for Cognitively Impaired Older Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Caregiver Burden and 30-Day Emergency Department Revisits.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- A public health/hospital partnership to improve Emergency Department transitions of care for vulnerable older adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Evaluating Intensity, Complexity, and Potential for Causal Inference in Social Needs Interventions: A Review of a Scoping Review.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- "Follow-up in a few days": Limitations to primary care access among older adults following emergency department discharge.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Emergency Department-Based Physical Function Measures for Falls in Older Adults and Outcomes: A Secondary Analysis of GAPcare.Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001) · 2024Article
- Emergency Department-to-Community Transitions of Care: Best Practices for the Older Adult Population.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2023Review
- Emergency department clinician satisfaction with an APRN-led geriatric emergency medicine service consult team.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesIndividual-level social needs have been shown to substantially impact emergency department (ED) care transitions of older adults. The Geriatric Emergency care Applied Research (GEAR) Network aimed to identify care transition interventions, particularly addressing social needs, and prioritize future research questions.
methodsGEAR engaged 49 interdisciplinary stakeholders, derived clinical questions, and conducted searches of electronic databases to identify ED discharge care transition interventions in older adult populations. Informed by the Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients' Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) framework, data extraction and synthesis of included studies included the degree that intervention components addressed social needs and their association with patient outcomes. GEAR convened a consensus conference to identify topics of highest priority for future care transitions research.
resultsOur search identified 248 unique articles addressing care transition interventions in older adult populations. Of these, 17 individual care transition intervention studies were included in the current literature synthesis. Overall, common care transition interventions included coordination efforts, comprehensive geriatric assessments, discharge planning, and telephone or in-person follow-up. Fourteen of the 17 care transition intervention studies in older adults specifically addressed at least one social need within the PRAPARE framework, most commonly related to access to food, medicine, or health care. No care transition intervention addressing social needs in older adult populations consistently reduced subsequent health care utilization or other patient-centered outcomes. GEAR stakeholders identified that determining optimal outcome measures for ED-home transition interventions was the highest priority area for future care transitions research.
conclusionsED care transition intervention studies in older adults frequently address at least one social need component and exhibit variation in the degree of success on a wide array of health care utilization outcomes.
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