ArticleEuropean geriatric medicine2024
Prevalence of Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED): an international flash mob study.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Early Warning Scores in Emergency Department Patients Aged 80 Years or Older.JAMA network open · 2026Article
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- Contextual Analysis and Implementation Strategies for an Age-Friendly Emergency Department Uptake: The FRED Study Protocol.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- Development of a Novel Frailty Trigger for Use at Triage in the Emergency Department.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- Being screened for frailty in the emergency department: the voice of patients in an exploratory qualitative study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- A European paramedic curriculum for geriatric emergency medicine developed via a modified Delphi technique.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Emergency department presentations of older patients in Germany: high rates of ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and increased odds of inpatient mortality in patients living with dementia.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting frailty among older adults with multimorbidity in the emergency department.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
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- Assessing what matters most in older emergency department patients.Age and ageing · 2025Observational
- Balancing care needs - a qualitative study on prehospital emergency nurses' experiences of providing self-care advice and home referrals for frail older patients.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- What are we teaching UK medical students about ageing and geriatric medicine? Results of the third British Geriatrics Society national curriculum and teaching survey.Age and ageing · 2025Article
- Factors associated with hospitalization from a geriatric short-stay unit (OBI-GER): a retrospective cohort study.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
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introductionCurrent emergency care systems are not optimized to respond to multiple and complex problems associated with frailty. Services may require reconfiguration to effectively deliver comprehensive frailty care, yet its prevalence and variation are poorly understood. This study primarily determined the prevalence of frailty among older people attending emergency care.
methodsThis cross-sectional study used a flash mob approach to collect observational European emergency care data over a 24-h period (04 July 2023). Sites were identified through the European Task Force for Geriatric Emergency Medicine collaboration and social media. Data were collected for all individuals aged 65 + who attended emergency care, and for all adults aged 18 + at a subset of sites. Variables included demographics, Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), vital signs, and disposition. European and national frailty prevalence was determined with proportions with each CFS level and with dichotomized CFS 5 + (mild or more severe frailty).
resultsSixty-two sites in fourteen European countries recruited five thousand seven hundred eighty-five individuals. 40% of 3479 older people had at least mild frailty, with countries ranging from 26 to 51%. They had median age 77 (IQR, 13) years and 53% were female. Across 22 sites observing all adult attenders, older people living with frailty comprised 14%.
conclusion40% of older people using European emergency care had CFS 5 + . Frailty prevalence varied widely among European care systems. These differences likely reflected entrance selection and provide windows of opportunity for system configuration and workforce planning.
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