Clinical Intervention Trials: The ACE Unit

A Multidisciplinary Intervention to Prevent the Readmission of Elderly Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

1995 • 2,368 citations

Comprehensive geriatric assessment: a meta-analysis of controlled trials

1993 • 1,920 citations

Effectiveness of a Geriatric Evaluation Unit

1984 • 898 citations

A Randomized Trial of Care in a Hospital Medical Unit Especially Designed to Improve the Functional Outcomes of Acutely Ill Older Patients

1995 • 828 citations

Dietary supplementation in elderly patients with fractured neck of the femur

1990 • 812 citations

Comprehensive Discharge Planning for the Hospitalized Elderly

1994 • 711 citations

Collaborative systematic review of the randomised trials of organised inpatient (stroke unit) care after stroke

1997 • 603 citations

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Geriatric Assessment Unit in a Community Rehabilitation Hospital

1990 • 407 citations

Screening for Frailty: Criteria and Predictors of Outcomes

1991 • 382 citations

Stroke Unit Treatment

1997 • 290 citations

How Do Stroke Units Improve Patient Outcomes?

1997 • 286 citations

Prevention of readmission in elderly patients with congestive heart failure

1993 • 257 citations

A Randomized Trial of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Care of Hospitalized Patients

1995 • 248 citations

Relation between Symptoms of Depression and Health Status Outcomes in Acutely Ill Hospitalized Older Persons

1997 • 222 citations

Illness Presentation in Elderly Patients

1995 • 214 citations

Geriatric Consultation Teams in Acute Hospitals: Impact on Back‐up of Elderly Patients

1985 • 211 citations

Effect of a Geriatric Consultation Team on Functional Status of Elderly Hospitalized Patients

1989 • 209 citations

Misdiagnosing Delirium as Depression in Medically Ill Elderly Patients

1995 • 207 citations

Prospective randomised study of an orthopaedic geriatric inpatient service.

1988 • 168 citations

A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of a Geriatric Consultation Team

1986 • 161 citations

Stroke Units Versus General Medical Wards, I: Twelve- and Eighteen-Month Survival

1998 • 150 citations

A Medical Unit for the Acute Care of the Elderly

1994 • 150 citations

Stroke Unit Versus General Medical Wards, II: Neurological Deficits and Activities of Daily Living

1998 • 138 citations

A Controlled Trial of a Nursing‐Centered Intervention in Hospitalized Elderly Medical Patients: The Yale Geriatric Care Program

1993 • 133 citations

Effect of a geriatric consultation service on management of patients in an acute care hospital.

1987 • 132 citations

Comprehensive Discharge Planning for Hospitalized Elderly

1990 • 130 citations

Nutritional Status of Elderly Patients during Recovery from Chest Infection and the Role of Nutritional Supplementation Assessed by a Prospective Randomized Single-blind Trial

1994 • 117 citations

The Senior Care Study

1990 • 110 citations

Functional Assessment of the Elderly

1987 • 109 citations

Trial of a Geriatric Consultation Team in an Acute Care Hospital

1987 • 105 citations

Functional Status Outcomes of a Nursing Intervention in Hospitalized Elderly

1992 • 103 citations

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a High Support Hospital Discharge Team for Elderly People

1994 • 102 citations

A Prospective Controlled Trial of a Geriatric Consultation Team in an Acute-care Hospital

1990 • 100 citations

A Negative Trial of Inpatient Geriatric Consultation

1993 • 96 citations

Inpatient Community‐Based Geriatric Assessment Reduces Subsequent Mortality

1993 • 94 citations

Do Acute Care for Elders Units Increase Hospital Costs? A Cost Analysis Using the Hospital Perspective

1997 • 93 citations

An Interdisciplinary Geriatric Consultation Service: A Controlled Trial

1983 • 91 citations

The Yale Geriatric Care Program: A Model of Care To Prevent Functional Decline in Hospitalized Elderly Patients

1993 • 84 citations

Acute hospital care of the elderly: minimizing the risk of functional decline

1995 • 75 citations

Impact of a Geriatric Consultation Team on Discharge Placement and Repeat Hospitalization

1988 • 74 citations

Contribution from geriatric medicine within acute medical wards.

1979 • 72 citations

Postdischarge Geriatric Assessment of Hospitalized Frail Elderly Patients

1996 • 69 citations

A Comparison of Placement Outcomes of Geriatric Cohorts Receiving Care in a Geriatric Assessment Unit and on General Medicine Floors

1983 • 62 citations

Acute care delivery for the geriatric patient: an innovative approach.

1985 • 59 citations

Functional Decline in Hospitalized Elders: Preventive Nursing Measures

1998 • 29 citations

Maximizing the Functional Status of Geriatric Patients in an Acute Community Hospital Setting

1989 • 26 citations

A Geriatric Special‐care Unit: Experience in a University Hospital

1983 • 24 citations

An acute care geriatric unit.

1986 • 23 citations

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Case Management of Frail, Hospitalized Older Adults

1993 • 20 citations

What is the value of a Geriatric Assessment Unit in a teaching hospital? A comparative study of the management of elderly inpatients.

1983 • 15 citations

Functional and Mental Status Outcomes: of Clients Discharged from Acute Gerontological Versus Medical/Surgical Units

1991 • 13 citations

The Impact of a Comprehensive Multi-dimensional Geriatric Assessment Programme on Duration of Stay in a French Acute Medical Ward

1994 • 12 citations

A Nursing-Driven Program to Preserve and Restore Functional Ability in Hospitalized Elderly Patients

1995 • 11 citations