What this means
This study will watch patients aged 75 and older who use a special emergency unit for older people. It will check how their health changes, such as daily function and hospital stays.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 75 and over
- Where
- 1 site
The science
- Registered title
- A Prospective Cohort Study of Clinical and Process Outcomes of Older Adults That Transition Through the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Unit(GEM-U)
- Trial ID
- NCT07237334 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- observational
- Conditions
- Frailty
- Sponsor
- University of Limerick
- Ages
- 75 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Nov 19, 2025 · updated Nov 19, 2025
Registry summary
This study will characterise the patients using the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Unit, a unit which provides specialist care for patients aged 75 years and older attending the emergency department. It will examine how this specialist care impacts their health in terms of a number of different outcomes, such as; function, quality of life and health care usage; for example admission to the acute hospital.
Sites (1)
- University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Munster, Ireland