[Profiling of patients in a specialized geriatric outpatient clinic].

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Germany geriatric outpatient care is predominantly done by family doctors and general practitioners (GP). There are regionally different concepts for additional specialized geriatric outpatient care but they have not yet been validated and established. Still, it remains unclear whether a geriatric patient has to be diagnosed rather in a specialized outpatient or inpatient setting. The aim of the present study is the profiling of geriatric outpatients to find key distinctions from geriatric patients that have to be admitted to hospital.

Methods

Retrospective data analysis of patients sent to a specialized geriatric outpatient clinic by their GP, compared with data of geriatric inpatients sent to hospital by their GP during the same time period. Study parameters

SUBMITTER: Rohde JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10406666 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature