Can Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Meet Frail Older People's Needs? Results from the Randomized Controlled Study CGA-Swed.

Theresa WestgårdIsabelle Andersson HammarSynneve Dahlin-Ivanoff Katarina Wilhelmson

Published in: Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) (2020)

Participants felt that the care they received with the CGA ward met their needs. The lack of additional results supporting the CGA could be due to difficulties performing pragmatic intervention trials in clinical hospital settings, and because a CGA during one hospital stay is probably not enough to have long-term effects.

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