Establishment of a Perioperative Geriatric Medicine Service in an Acute Surgical Unit—Older Adult Surgical Inpatient Service ( <scp>OASIS</scp> )
It is feasible to initiate a geriatric medicine in-reach service in a tertiary hospital ASU by integrating a 0.5 FTE geriatrician into existing resources. A multi-domain description of demographics, frailty, surgical diagnosis and management of older adults with acute surgical pathology is provided.
Authors
- Anuttara Panchali Kumarasinghe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7921-505X)
- Rebecca Long
- Amanda Foster
- Aron Thian
- Aurelne Thian
- Kate Murray
- Anand Trivedi
- Ainslie Jolliffe
- Katherine Cheng
- Viraji Hewage
Institutions
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Curtin University (AU)
- Fiona Stanley Hospital (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Australasian Journal on Ageing
- Published
- 2026-02-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.70134
- Primary Topic
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Fiona Stanley Hospital