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.
Authors
- Yuhan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3532-6708)
- Antonio Cosimetti
- Alex Montagu
Institutions
- Oxford Brookes University (GB)
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ Open Quality
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2024-003216
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.45