The interRAI Acute Care instrument incorporated in an eHealth system for standardized and web-based geriatric assessment: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the acute hospital setting

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Devriendt, Els ^a,b   Wellens, Nathalie I H ^a   Flamaing, Johan ^a,b   Declercq, Anja ^c   Moons, Philip ^a   Boonen, Steven ^a,b   Milisen, Koen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Centre for Sociological Research   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aged; Comprehensive geriatric assessment; Hospital; InterRAI Acute Care; Software; SWOT analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PILOT STUDY; STANDARD; TELEMEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE; TELEMEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883460837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-13-90     Document Type: Article

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