Risk stratification tool for older emergency department patients: the 6-items brief geriatric assessment
Prabakar VaittinadaAyar, Dorothee Riedlinger, Sara Fakhiri, Marc-Florent Tassi, Mehmet A Karamercan, Defne Z Dündar, Mehmet Ergin, Andrea Fabbri, Lars P Bjornsen, Sándor Somodi, Visnja N Adam, Effie Polyzogopoulou, Avni Demir Huseyin, Anna Slagman, Said Laribi · 2026
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Prabakar VaittinadaAyar leads a fifteen-author team testing a six-question geriatric check as a fast risk tool for older emergency patients, in 2026 work. Older arrivals are rising in emergency departments, and quick sorting tools are scarce. The study ran in 36 European departments over seven straight days and enrolled 4,657 patients aged 65 and older with any complaint. Nurses scored the brief check at arrival, sorting patients into low, moderate, or high risk. Models then linked risk level to admission, stay length, and death.
Admission odds and stay length matched between low and moderate groups, yet both jumped in the high group. Moderate-risk patients died at about double the low-risk rate, and high-risk patients at about triple. The authors say the six items can flag frailer elders fast and support standard triage. They still call for forward trials before routine use, since this was an observational snapshot.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Prabakar VaittinadaAyar, Dorothee Riedlinger, Sara Fakhiri, Marc-Florent Tassi, Mehmet A Karamercan, Defne Z Dündar, Mehmet Ergin, Andrea Fabbri, Lars P Bjornsen, Sándor Somodi, Visnja N Adam, Effie Polyzogopoulou, Avni Demir Huseyin, Anna Slagman, Said Laribi |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32092 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |