Geriatric Outpatient Clinics: an Audit of Clinical Action, Transport and General Practitioners' Views
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Age and Ageing
- Vol. 18 (4) , 253-257
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/18.4.253
Abstract
An audit was performed of patients attending geriatric outpatient clinics for review during a calendar month. Patients were asked to complete a brief questionnaire and 93% of case notes were available for study. In 97 attendances, management was altered in 36, a new medical problem found in 16, and 49 patients were discharged. Forty-seven attendances followed recent discharge from hospital; 19 of these patients had no evident clinical benefit from attendance, although the majority were discharged. There may be scope for a liaison nurse to take over the follow-up of some patients to save their attending a clinic. A survey of local general practitioners suggested they would welcome this.Keywords
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