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Geriatric emergency care: an annotated bibliography
1Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Insights
This annotated bibliography offers key recent articles on emergency department care for elderly patients. It focuses on clinical practice for geriatric emergency medicine, aiding clinicians and researchers.
Area of Science:
- Geriatric Emergency Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Clinical Geriatrics
Context:
- The rapid expansion of geriatric literature necessitates curated resources for healthcare professionals.
- Emergency departments face increasing numbers of elderly patients with unique care needs.
- Existing literature often addresses aging physiology separately from emergency care delivery.
Purpose:
- To provide a focused, annotated bibliography of essential journal articles on geriatric emergency medicine.
- To highlight recent (within five years) and generally applicable research for clinicians and academicians.
- To identify key articles relevant to the delivery of emergency care for older adults.
Summary:
- This bibliography compiles selected, recent journal articles on the general care of elderly patients in emergency departments.
- It prioritizes articles of broad interest to clinicians and researchers in academic emergency medicine.
- Coverage emphasizes direct patient care, with limited inclusion of economic, legal, ethical, or sociological aspects.
Impact:
- Facilitates access to current, high-impact research in geriatric emergency medicine.
- Supports evidence-based practice improvements for the emergency care of older adults.
- Serves as a valuable resource for both practicing clinicians and academic researchers in the field.
Abstract:
This annotated bibliography provides selected references to journal articles addressing general issues of the care of elderly patients in the emergency department. The bibliography was compiled by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Geriatric Emergency Medicine Task Force. Because the literature pertinent to geriatrics has continued to grow rapidly, only key articles of general interest to the clinician and academician are included in the bibliography. Preference is given to recent publications; most references date from the past five years. The articles cited are primarily concerned with the delivery of emergency care to geriatric patients; economic, legal, ethical, and sociological topics receive limited coverage. Some articles were selected to highlight current controversies or changes in viewpoint. Aging physiology, atypical characteristics of illness, and disease processes have been addressed elsewhere (J Am Geriatr Soc 1989;37:894-910).