Geriatric Team in ED: Effects on Rate of Hospitalization and on Community Health Management of Elderly (GerED-21)

"In comparison to the precedent studies, this project is characterised by some innovative aspects as regards to the design of intervention:~1. the participation of both a geriatrician and a nurse expert in transitional care, with the consultancy of a social worker when needed, in the management of the elderly patient within ED, adds to the project a greater operational capacity of the multidimensional assessment (CGA) of planning the best care setting for the patient.~2. The proposed CGA model is complete in the analysis of the different domains (social, clinical, functional, cognitive-affective) and achievable in this particular urgent setting.~3. The program examines, unlike other studies, much more variables that can help to define the effectiveness of the intervention.~4. The involvement in the network program of three main hospitals of the Emilia Romagna with a pool of elderly patients afferent to ED of about 20,000 elderly/year per hospital (2019 data prior of Sars Cov2 pandemic)"