Table 2 Content of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) performed at hospital admission
| Domain | Question or instrument in CGA |
Condition/ Disease |
|---|---|---|
| SOMATIC | ||
| 1. Mobility and stability | Have you been fallen once or more in the past six months? | Falls |
| Do you experience dizziness? | Dizziness | |
| Have you ever had a fracture? | Osteoporosis risk | |
| 2. Medication |
Only if patients use medication Do you experience difficulties or side effect with medication use? | Medication safety and side effects |
| Polypharmacy defined as the use or five or more different medications | Polypharmacy | |
| Medication adherence with the questionnaire of Aburuz [24] | Medication adherence | |
| 3. Nutrition | Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire (SNAQ) [25] | Malnutrition |
| Was the patient dehydrated at admission? | Dehydration | |
| Difficulties with swallowing? | Swallowing disturbance | |
| Obesity or underweight | ||
| Body mass index | Oral hygiene | |
| Do you have pain in your mouth? | ||
| 4. Urine and fecal problems | Do you experience urine incontinence? Do you experience fecal incontinence | Incontinence |
| Do you experience obstipation? | Obstipation | |
| Do you have an indwelling urinary catheter? Did you already have this at home? | Indwelling urinary catheter use | |
| 5. Skin | Do you have pressure ulcer(s)? | Pressure ulcer |
| 6. Pain | Visual analogue scale for pain [26] | Pain |
| 7. Allergy | Are you allergic? | Allergy |
| PSYCHOLOGICAL | ||
| 1. Delirium | Have you ever experienced a delirium? | Delirium |
| Confusement Assessment Method [27] | ||
| 2. Depression | Geriatric depression Scale [28, 29] | Depression |
| 3. Cognition | Mini-Mental State Examination [30] | Cognitive impairement |
| 4. Anxiety | Do you feel anxious? | Anxiety |
| 5. Dependency | Do you smoke? | Alcohol, smoking and medication use |
| Do you use alcohol | ||
| Do you use benzodiazepines? | ||
| FUNCTIONAL | ||
| 1. ADL functioning | Katz ADL index score [19] | ADL dependency |
| 2. IADL functioning | IADL questions of Lawton and Brody [31] | IADL dependency |
| 3. mobility difficulty | Are you using a walking aid? | Mobility difficulty |
| 4. Hearing | Do you experience difficulties with hearing, despite the use of a hearing aid? | Hearing impairment |
| 5. Visual | Do you experience difficulties with your vision, despite the use of glasses? | Visual impairment |
| 6. Sleep | Do you experience problems with sleeping? | Sleeping disorder |
| Do you use sleeping medication? If yes, how often? | ||
| SOCIAL | ||
| 1. Loneliness | De Jong Gierveld-questionnaire [32] | Loneliness |
| 2. Burden of care giver | Care giver extension of the Minimal Data set | Burden of care giver |
| 3. Health related quality of life | EQ-6 D [22] | Health related quality of life |