All Outputs (9)

Indentifying published studies of care home research: an international survey of researchers (2017)
Journal Article

Collating the published research around institutional, long term care is confounded by the differing terminologies used to describe this health-care setting. We aimed to collate the descriptors used by researchers to inform the future development of... Read More about Indentifying published studies of care home research: an international survey of researchers.

Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Care homes are the institutional providers of long-term care for older people. The OPTIMAL study argued that it is probable that there are key activities within different models of health-care provision that are important for residents’ h... Read More about Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings.

Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive Healthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH) study (2017)
Journal Article

Introduction Care home residents are relatively high users of healthcare resources and may have complex needs. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) may benefit care home residents and improve efficiency of care delivery. This is an approach t... Read More about Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive Healthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH) study.

New horizons in geriatric medicine education and training: The need for pan-European education and training standards (2017)
Journal Article

The ageing population ought to be celebrated as evidence for the efficacy of modern medicine, but the challenge that this demographic shift presents for 21st century healthcare systems, with increasing numbers of people living with multi-morbidity an... Read More about New horizons in geriatric medicine education and training: The need for pan-European education and training standards.

The physician’s role in perioperative management of older patients undergoing surgery (2017)
Journal Article

Life-sustaining and life-improving surgical interventions are increasingly available to older, frailer patients, many of whom have multimorbidity. Physicians can help support perioperative multidisciplinary teams with assessment and preoperative opti... Read More about The physician’s role in perioperative management of older patients undergoing surgery.

Factors related to medical students’ and doctors’ attitudes towards older patients: a systematic review (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Studies have sought to identify the possible determinants of medical students’ and doctors’ attitudes towards older patients by examining relationships with a variety of demographic, educational/training, and job factors. This review coll... Read More about Factors related to medical students’ and doctors’ attitudes towards older patients: a systematic review.

Benchmarking the prevalence of care problems in UK care homes using the LPZ-i: a feasibility study (2017)
Journal Article

Background: UK care homes have no mechanism for counting, collating or analyzing prevalence of care problems to benchmark quality of care. This study investigated the feasibility of the International Prevalence Measurement of Quality of... Read More about Benchmarking the prevalence of care problems in UK care homes using the LPZ-i: a feasibility study.

Being the ‘med reg’: an exploration of junior doctors’ perceptions of the medical registrar role (2017)
Journal Article

The role of the medical registrar is a challenging one and is acknowledged as being a disincentive to a career in medicine for some junior doctors. We set out to build a broader understanding of the role through exploration of Foundation Doctors’ and... Read More about Being the ‘med reg’: an exploration of junior doctors’ perceptions of the medical registrar role.

Why geriatric medicine? A survey of UK specialist trainees in geriatric medicine (2017)
Journal Article

Background: There is global concern that there are insufficient numbers of geriatricians to meet the needs of the ageing population. A 2005 survey described factors that influenced why UK geriatricians had chosen to specialise in the field - in the d... Read More about Why geriatric medicine? A survey of UK specialist trainees in geriatric medicine.