Structure and processes of interdisciplinary geriatric consultation teams in acute care hospitals: A scoping review

Interdisciplinary geriatric consultation teams are implemented in the acute hospital setting in several high-income countries to provide comprehensive geriatric assessment for the increasing numbers of older patients with a geriatric profile hospitalized on non-geriatric units. Given the inconclusive evidence on this care model's effectiveness to improve patient outcomes, health care policy and practice oriented recommendations to redesign the structure and process of care provided by interdisciplinary geriatric consultation teams are needed. A scoping review was conducted to explore the structure and processes of interdisciplinary geriatric consultation teams in an international context. As nurses are considered key members of these teams, their roles and responsibilities were specifically explored.publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Structure and processes of interdisciplinary geriatric consultation teams in acute care hospitals: A scoping review journaltitle: International Journal of Nursing Studies articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2015.09.015 content_type: article copyright: Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.status: publishe