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Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society 1997;1(2):43-55.
Published online December 31, 1997.
Clinical Yield from Preventive In-Home Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Program Among Elderly People
Choo Yon Cho, Sung Ho Hong, Cathy A Alessi
1Department of Family Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Medical College, Seoul, Korea.
2University of California Los Angeles Multicampus Program in Geriatrics and Gerontology CA. USA.
포괄적 노인평가를 통한 예방적 가정진료 프로그램의 임상적 고찰
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the consequences of care of a program of preventive in-home comprehensive geriatric assessment(CGA) and determine: 1) if there are major findings in all domains of CGA(medical, functional, mental health and social/environmental), 2) if there is a continued clinical yield when CGA is repeated annually, and 3) factors which affect patient adherence with recommendations from CGA.
METHODS
Descriptive prospective study of subjects allocated to the intervention group of a randomized trial of preventive in-home CGA was applied to 202 persons aged 75 years or older and living at home who received the intervention of annual and quarterly home visits by gerontologic nurse practitioners(GNPs) for three years at participants' homes in an urban setting. Detailed data were collected prospectively on clinical problems detected by CGA, specific recommendations made of these problems, and subject adherence with these recommendations.
RESULTS
Participants were 80.8 years, 70% of them were female, 95% white, and 64% living alone.4 mean of 17.5 active problems per subject were identified in all domains of CGA, although the most common problems were medical.4 constant number of therapeutic and preventive recommendations was made each year(8.5 per subject annually). Subject adherence varied by type of recommendation(ANOVA, p=.0001); adherence was better for referrals to a physician than for referrals to a non-physician professional or community service or for recommendations involving self-care activities.
CONCLUSION
In these community-dwelling older people, there was a continued yield of problems identified and recommendations made when preventive in-home CGA was repeated annually for three years, supporting the practice of repeat CGA in community elders. Subject adherence with recommendations from CGA varied by type of recommendation, but further work is needed to determine additional factors which affect this adherence and to determine the association, if any, between the yield of CGA(i.e., problems identified and recommendations given) and important clinical consequences.
Key Words: Comprehensive geriatric assessment, Recommendation, Adherence
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배경 : 포괄적 노인평가를 통한 예방적 가정진료 프로그램의 임상적 결과를 알아보고 포괄적 노인평가를 정기적으로 시행시 의학적, 기능적, 정신적 및 사회환경적 영역에 대한 주요 결과 및 지속적인 임상적 소득이 있는지, 그리고 주요 추천에 대한 환자들의 순응도 등을 알아보기 위하여 본 연구를 시행하였다.

방법 : 이 연구는 캘리포니아 산타모니카 해안지역에 거주하는 75세 이상의 노인들을 대상으로 시행된 포괄적 노인평가를 통한 예방적 가정진료 프로그램 중 중재군에 대하여 2차적으로 평가하였다. 이 1993년에 1차 종료된 3년간의 무작위 시험은 중재군에 속한 참가자 202명에 대한 기술적 전향적 조사로 가정 내 거주하는 노인들에 대하여 노인 가정간호사의 정기적 방문을 통한 자료수집이 전향적으로 이루어졌다.

결과: 참가자들의 연령은 80.8세, 여자가 70%, 그리고 64%가 홀로 살고 있었다. 3년간 개인당 17.5개의 문제들이 발견되었으며, 매년 8.5개의 예방적 추천이 이루어졌으며, 의사에게 의뢰한 추천에 대한 순응도가 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다.

결론 : 포괄적 노인평가를 통한 예방적 가정진료 프로그램은 지속적으로 시행 시 임상적으로 유용한 것으로 나타났으며, 향후 미국 뿐 아니라 가정진료 및 노인진료를 계획하고 있는 우리 나라의 경우에도 포괄적 노인평가를 통한 예방적 가정진료 프로그램이 유용성에 대하여 더욱 많은 연구가 계속될 가치가 있다고 여겨진다.



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