Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, A1 East, Suite 150, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, A1 East, Suite 150, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Care Research Core, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Campus Box 8072, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/GeriatricEDNews.
Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2021 May;39(2):243-255. doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2020.12.004. Epub 2021 Mar 23.
Geriatric emergency medicine has emerged as a subspecialty of emergency medicine over the past 25 years. This emergence has seen the development of increases in training opportunities, care delivery strategies, collaborative best practice guidelines, and formal geriatric emergency department accreditation. This multidisciplinary field remains ripe for continued development in the coming decades as the aging US population parallels a call from patients, health care providers, and health systems to improve the delivery of high-value care. This article educates emergency medicine practitioners and highlights high-value care practice trends to inform and prioritize decision-making for this unique patient population.
老年急诊医学在过去的 25 年中已经成为急诊医学的一个分支。这一发展带来了培训机会的增加、护理提供策略、协作最佳实践指南以及正式的老年急诊部门认证。随着美国人口老龄化与患者、医疗保健提供者和医疗系统呼吁提高高价值护理的提供,这个多学科领域在未来几十年仍有很大的发展空间。本文为急诊医学从业者提供教育,并强调高价值护理实践趋势,为这一独特的患者群体提供信息并为决策提供重点。