Reliability of Identification of Seniors at Risk Screening Tool in Predicting Functional and Mental Decline in Discharged Elderly Patients

نویسندگان
Ghanbari Moghadam, Akram ID 1
Mohammadi, Mojtaba ID 2
Ardane, Fateme ID 3
Talebi, Shahrbanoo ID 4
Karbalaee, Zeinab ID 5

1 .Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery school, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Khorasan-e Razavi, Mashhad, Iran

2 Dpartment of Health Education and Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

3 Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Khorasan-e Razavi, Sabzevar,Iran

4 Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Khorasan-e Razavi, Sabzevar,Iran

5 Faculty of Nursing, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran

doi
10.18502/ehj.v5i1.1200
چکیده

Introduction: Emergency wards today are facing with an increasing numbers of older patients. Therefore, it seems important and essential to develop a short screening tool with an acceptable predictive power to identify the seniors being discharged from hospital and mean while are at risk of a decline in physical and mental performance, ...

کلیدواژه‌ها
Aged, Emergencies, Seniors at Risk