McKnight's March 12, 2024
A new risk assessment model delivered over electronic health records (EHRs) worked well to predict an older adult’s critical illness within a year of a primary care visit. Authors said the findings could serve as a basis for testing and enacting preventive strategies to promote the well-being of older adults at risk for life-threatening illnesses.
The research involved creating and assigning an Elders Risk Assessment (ERA) score to identify older adults who were at risk, according to the study published March 7 in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
This isn’t the first time the ERA score has been assessed; previous research has examined using it to predict nursing home placement as well as other factors such as...
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