... for treatment. The purpose of this paper is to describe and scrutinize the CGA implementation process at six acute geriatric departments in three county councils and to study the outcome by the documentation in the patient medical records, and the staff perceptions using CGA. Design/methodology/approach...

... (81 v. 75, p=0.03 after adjusting for baseline patient and hospital stay characteristics). No independent associations were found between patient perception scores and the documentation of pain assessment and nutritional disorder screening. Yet, medical record-keeping quality...

... attention to local resources such as the existence of an effective documentation management system (Durieux and Ravaud, 1997) or guideline format (Dahlberg, 2000; Hayward et al., 1996). An effective documentation management system should ensure that all users have a pertinent version...