COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE: WHAT DO PATIENTS SAY?
Objective: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is one of the cornerstones of geriatric medicine. In this study, we aimed to find out how satisfied patients aged 60 and over with the application of CGA and whether they would express these complaints if geriatric-syndromes were not questioned. Ma...
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| description | Objective: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is one of the cornerstones of geriatric medicine. In this study, we aimed to find out how satisfied patients aged 60 and over with the application of CGA and whether they would express these complaints if geriatric-syndromes were not questioned. Materials and Methods: Patients who applied to the geriatric outpatient-clinic were included. An 18-question survey was applied by the geriatric nurse. The satisfaction and benefit expectations of the patients regarding both the application of CGA and specific sub-areas of CGA (urinary- fecal incontinence, falls, sleep, Mini-Nutritional-Assessment, Mini-Mental-State-Examination) were evaluated. They were asked whether they would express their complaints if these questions were not asked. Results: One-hundred-fifty patients were included in the study. The mean-age was 73.7±7 years. One-hundred-forty-eight patients were satisfied with the CGA and 139 of them thought it was beneficial. Seventy-three (49%) patients had urinary-incontinence, and 29 (19%) patients said that they would not report urinary-incontinence if this question had not been asked. Seventeen patients (11%) had fecal-incontinence and 16% of all patients said that they would not report fecal-incontinence if this question had not been asked. Twenty-nine of 85 patients stated that although they had a history of falling within the last year, they would not have stated this situation if this question was not asked. Ninety-three percent of the patients stated that they were satisfied with the Mini-Mental-State-Examination and that they thought this test would be beneficial for them. Conclusion: Although it takes time and is tiring, CGA is satisfactory for patients and enables the recognition of geriatric-syndromes that may remain hidden. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-708ed0804e3f417a82472d6fd3bec5a62025-08-20T01:50:27ZengIstanbul University Pressİstanbul Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi1305-64412022-03-0185223624110.26650/IUITFD.956759123456COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE: WHAT DO PATIENTS SAY?Tuğba Erdoğan0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8690-0189Birkan İlhan1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6039-5866Aslı Tufan Çinçin2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7522-8275Gülistan Bahat Öztürk3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5343-9795Mehmet Akif Karan4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-404Xİstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, TürkiyeSağlık Bakanlığı, Ankara, TurkiyeMarmara Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Türkiyeİstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Türkiyeİstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, TürkiyeObjective: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is one of the cornerstones of geriatric medicine. In this study, we aimed to find out how satisfied patients aged 60 and over with the application of CGA and whether they would express these complaints if geriatric-syndromes were not questioned. Materials and Methods: Patients who applied to the geriatric outpatient-clinic were included. An 18-question survey was applied by the geriatric nurse. The satisfaction and benefit expectations of the patients regarding both the application of CGA and specific sub-areas of CGA (urinary- fecal incontinence, falls, sleep, Mini-Nutritional-Assessment, Mini-Mental-State-Examination) were evaluated. They were asked whether they would express their complaints if these questions were not asked. Results: One-hundred-fifty patients were included in the study. The mean-age was 73.7±7 years. One-hundred-forty-eight patients were satisfied with the CGA and 139 of them thought it was beneficial. Seventy-three (49%) patients had urinary-incontinence, and 29 (19%) patients said that they would not report urinary-incontinence if this question had not been asked. Seventeen patients (11%) had fecal-incontinence and 16% of all patients said that they would not report fecal-incontinence if this question had not been asked. Twenty-nine of 85 patients stated that although they had a history of falling within the last year, they would not have stated this situation if this question was not asked. Ninety-three percent of the patients stated that they were satisfied with the Mini-Mental-State-Examination and that they thought this test would be beneficial for them. Conclusion: Although it takes time and is tiring, CGA is satisfactory for patients and enables the recognition of geriatric-syndromes that may remain hidden.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/70E24D75ECBA4933A1EC44181EAD3CD4comprehensive geriatric assessmentsatisfactiongeriatric syndromebenefit |
| spellingShingle | Tuğba Erdoğan Birkan İlhan Aslı Tufan Çinçin Gülistan Bahat Öztürk Mehmet Akif Karan COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE: WHAT DO PATIENTS SAY? İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi comprehensive geriatric assessment satisfaction geriatric syndrome benefit |
| title | COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE: WHAT DO PATIENTS SAY? |
| title_full | COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE: WHAT DO PATIENTS SAY? |
| title_fullStr | COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE: WHAT DO PATIENTS SAY? |
| title_full_unstemmed | COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE: WHAT DO PATIENTS SAY? |
| title_short | COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE: WHAT DO PATIENTS SAY? |
| title_sort | comprehensive geriatric assessment in practice what do patients say |
| topic | comprehensive geriatric assessment satisfaction geriatric syndrome benefit |
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