Improving frailty identification and comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) completion on the wards

摘要

IntroductionComprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is known to deliversubstantial and measurable health improvements to frail olderpeople, including increased independence and a reduction inmortality.1 The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) can detect older adultsat higher risk of complicated course and longer hospital stay.2Despite the known benefits, previous audits have shown poordocumentation on geriatric wards at Southend Hospital. Therefore,we devised a quality improvement project to improve the uptake ofboth these.