New clinical pathway reduces rate of debilitating complications for frail elderly trauma patients

[Ketua Dobbs]

New clinical pathway reduces rate of debilitating complications for frail elderly trauma patients

A standardized interdisciplinary clinical pathway to identify and manage frailty in older patients has reduced the rate of one of the most debilitating complications for older patients--delirium--and kept patients from returning to the hospital within 30 days of treatment for traumatic injury.
Source: New clinical pathway reduces rate of debilitating complications for frail elderly trauma patients