RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Community frailty response service: the ED at your front door
JF Emergency Medicine Journal
JO Emerg Med J
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
SP 714
OP 716
DO 10.1136/emermed-2020-210005
VO 37
IS 11
A1 Rosa McNamara
A1 Kerri Donnelly
A1 Nichola Boyle
A1 David Menzies
A1 Rebecca Hollywood
A1 Elizabeth Little
A1 Eoin Tiernan
A1 Karen Donohoe
A1 Aidan Delaney
A1 Fionnuala Duffy
A1 Eoin Feeney
A1 Shane O'Hanlon
YR 2020
UL http://emj.bmj.com/content/37/11/714.abstract
AB We describe the expansion and adaptation of a frailty response team to assess older people in their usual place of residence. The team had commenced a weekend service to a limited area in February 2020. As a consequence of demand related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we expanded it and adapted the model of care to provide a 7-day service to our entire catchment area. Five hundred and ninety two patient reviews have been completed in the first 105 days of operation with 43 patients transferred to hospital for further investigation or management following assessment.