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       How geriatrician support 'reduces admission rate'?
       By: Annabeli5 Date: May 28, 2015, 2:43 am
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       How geriatrician support 'reduces admission rate'?
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       Re: How geriatrician support 'reduces admission rate'?
       By: Janei5 Date: May 28, 2015, 2:59 am
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       Providing geriatrician support to GPs working in nursing homes
       reduces of emergency hospital admissions and bed days, new
       research shows. The study, presented at the British Geriatric
       Society spring meeting in Liverpool last month, looked at 1,151
       residents in three nursing homes in Middlesex between April 2006
       and March 2009. Four interventions - including a monthly medical
       advisory meeting between GPs and a consultant geriatrician, were
       carried out for three months, after which there was a reduction
       of 57 bed days over a three-month period for three nursing
       homes, compared to the previous year. If extrapolated to all
       nursing homes covered by our Trust, this means a reduction of
       338 residents every year, the researchers calculated. The
       admission rate per 1,000 admissions was halved, from an expected
       rate of 23 per 1,000 admissions to an observed rate of 11 per
       1,000.
       Dr Radcliffe Lisk, a consultant in elderly medicine at the
       Ashford & St. Peter's NHS trust, concluded: 'Geriatricians
       working with GPs together with co-ordinated multidisciplinary
       teams are well placed to manage these complex frail elderly
       residents and develop care plans for these residents.'. Previous
       research has shown that providing GP practices with the support
       of geriatricians improved management of elderly patients in care
       homes and reduced healthcare crises'. A Pulse survey of almost
       900 GPs, conducted as part of a special investigation into care
       home funding, found 80% of GPs said they lacked sufficient
       support or resources to manage elderly patients in care homes
       safely.
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