TY - JOUR
T1 - Standardised assessment for elderly people (SAFE) - a feasibility study in district nursing.
AU - Ross, Fiona M.
AU - Bower, Peter
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Current policy requires systematic and comprehensive assessment of elderly people. Few standardized tools exist for assessment. This paper is in two parts. First it reports on the SAFE assessment measures agreed by a multidisciplinary working party initiated by the Royal College of Physicians and the British Geriatrics Society in 1992. The second part reports the findings of a feasibility study of SAFE in district nursing practice. The outcomes examined were the proportion of patients with completed assessments, the time taken to carry out the assessments, acceptability to the patient, carer and district nurse, and the training required. The findings show that SAFE is a practical and acceptable set of instruments in the assessment of elderly people by district nurses, but that further refinement is desirable.
AB - Current policy requires systematic and comprehensive assessment of elderly people. Few standardized tools exist for assessment. This paper is in two parts. First it reports on the SAFE assessment measures agreed by a multidisciplinary working party initiated by the Royal College of Physicians and the British Geriatrics Society in 1992. The second part reports the findings of a feasibility study of SAFE in district nursing practice. The outcomes examined were the proportion of patients with completed assessments, the time taken to carry out the assessments, acceptability to the patient, carer and district nurse, and the training required. The findings show that SAFE is a practical and acceptable set of instruments in the assessment of elderly people by district nurses, but that further refinement is desirable.
KW - Nursing and midwifery
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7551438
U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1995.tb00028.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1995.tb00028.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 7551438
SN - 0962-1067
VL - 4
SP - 303
EP - 310
JO - Journal of Clinical Nursing
JF - Journal of Clinical Nursing
IS - 5
ER -