Identifying frail patients at the front door: a quality improvement project on improving identifying frailty and accuracy of Clinical Frailty Scale in the emergency department in an acute general hospital

This quality improvement project, using a lanyard card, in conjunction with brief teaching and other training methods, effectively increased the rate at which moderate to very severely frail frailty was identified and subsequently referred to frailty teams.

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BMJ Open Quality
Published
2025-04-01
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2024-003216
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2
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Frailty in Older Adults
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Identifying frail patients at the front door: a quality improvement project on improving identifying frailty and accuracy of Clinical Frailty Scale in the emergency department in an acute general hospital

Yuhan Zhang, Antonio Cosimetti, Alex Montagu
2 citations
BMJ Open Quality
Frailty in Older Adults
2.45
article

Identifying frail patients at the front door: a quality improvement project on improving identifying frailty and accuracy of Clinical Frailty Scale in the emergency department in an acute general hospital

Yuhan Zhang, Antonio Cosimetti, Alex Montagu
article en
2 citations

Abstract

This quality improvement project, using a lanyard card, in conjunction with brief teaching and other training methods, effectively increased the rate at which moderate to very severely frail frailty was identified and subsequently referred to frailty teams.

BMJ Open QualityVol. 14(2)
Oxford Brookes University (GB), Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
Openalex Percentile: Top 13%
Frailty in Older Adults
2.45
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