Development of Quality Indicators for the frail elderly in acute care

虚弱的老年人在住院期间特别容易受到一系列事故的影响。良好的护理可以减少这些问题的频率和程度。质量指标(QI)帮助医院及其内部的临床服务单位评估其表现，并将其与其他医院进行比较。澳大利亚或海外均不存在用于衡量处于急性护理环境中的虚弱老年人结局的量化指标。我们的目标是在这项研究期间制定这些指标。

Frail older people are particularly vulnerable to a range of mishaps while in hospital. Good care can reduce the frequency and extent of these problems. Quality indicators (QIs) assist hospitals, and clinical service units within them, to appraise their performance, and to compare it to other hospitals. QIs for the measurement of outcomes for the frail aged in the acute care setting do not exist in Australia or overseas. We aim to develop these indicators during this study.