BMJ Open (Apr 2022)

The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) network approach: a protocol to advance stakeholder consensus and research priorities in geriatrics and dementia care in the emergency department

  • ,
  • Shan Liu,
  • John Morris,
  • Cynthia Brandt,
  • Eric Isaacs,
  • Lynne Richardson,
  • David Carr,
  • Kathleen Kelly,
  • Marian Betz,
  • Jon Mark Hirshon,
  • Maria Raven,
  • Jin Han,
  • Maura Kennedy,
  • Manish Shah,
  • Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi,
  • Sunday Clark,
  • Kevin Biese,
  • Adriane Lesser,
  • Kelly Ko,
  • Mark Rosenberg,
  • Ula Hwang,
  • Christopher Carpenter,
  • Ryan Carnahan,
  • Susan Hastings,
  • Daniel Wei,
  • Vincent Mor,
  • Denise Nassisi,
  • William Perry,
  • Connor Sullivan,
  • Scott Dresden,
  • Jeffrey Dussetschleger,
  • Angela Gifford,
  • Ly Hoang,
  • Jesseca Leggett,
  • Armin Nowroozpoor,
  • Zachary Taylor,
  • M Fernando Bellolio,
  • Christine Binkley,
  • Nicolas Bott,
  • Abraham Brody,
  • Savannah Forester,
  • Cameron Gettel,
  • Elizabeth Goldberg,
  • Allyson Greenberg,
  • Nada Hammouda,
  • Nicole S Hastings,
  • Teresita Hogan,
  • William Hung,
  • Jay Kayser,
  • Elizabeth Linton,
  • Aaron Malsch,
  • Carmen Morano Don Melady,
  • Nancy Morrow-Howell,
  • Lori Nerbonne,
  • Sylvie Nyamu,
  • Ugochi Ohuabunwa,
  • Timothy Platts-Mills,
  • Luna Ragsdale,
  • Thom Ringer,
  • Anthony Rosen,
  • Rachel Skains,
  • Stephanie Skees,
  • Kimberly Souffront,
  • Laura Stabler,
  • Joseph Suyama,
  • Samuel Vargas,
  • E Camille Vaughan,
  • Corrine Voils,
  • Heather Allore,
  • Amy Aloysi,
  • Michael Belleville,
  • M Fernanda Bellolio,
  • Jennie Chin-Hansen,
  • Morgan Daven,
  • Nida Degesys,
  • Michael Ellenbogen,
  • Marcus Escobedo,
  • Jason Falvey,
  • Thomas Gill,
  • James Hardy,
  • Amy JH Kind,
  • Caitlin Malicki,
  • Michael Malone,
  • Richard Marottoli,
  • Michelle Moccia,
  • Nancy Morrow Howell,
  • Brenda Oiyemhonlan,
  • Kristin Rising,
  • Mary Sano,
  • Conor Sullivan,
  • Joe Suyama,
  • Jeremy Swartzberg,
  • Vaishal Tolia,
  • Allan Vann,
  • Sandra Weintraub,
  • Susan Zieman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-060974
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 4

Abstract

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Introduction Increasingly, older adults are turning to emergency departments (EDs) to address healthcare needs. To achieve these research demands, infrastructure is needed to both generate evidence of intervention impact and advance the development of implementation science, pragmatic trials evaluation and dissemination of findings from studies addressing the emergency care needs of older adults. The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (https://gearnetwork.org) has been created in response to these scientific needs—to build a transdisciplinary infrastructure to support the research that will optimise emergency care for older adults and persons living with dementia.Methods and analysis In this paper, we describe our approach to developing the GEAR Network infrastructure, the scoping reviews to identify research and clinical gaps and its use of consensus-driven research priorities with a transdisciplinary taskforce of stakeholders that includes patients and care partners. We describe how priority topic areas are ascertained, the process of conducting scoping reviews with integrated academic librarians performing standardised searches and providing quality control on reviews, input and support from the taskforce and conducting a large-scale consensus workshop to prioritise future research topics. The GEAR Network approach provides a framework and systematic approach to develop a research agenda and support research in geriatric emergency care.Ethics and dissemination This is a systematic review of previously conducted research; accordingly, it does not constitute human subjects research needing ethics review. These reviews will be prepared as manuscripts and submitted for publication to peer-reviewed journals, and the results will be presented at conferences.Open Science Framework registered DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/6QRYX, 10.17605/OSF.IO/AKVZ8, 10.17605/OSF.IO/EPVR5, 10.17605/OSF.IO/VXPRS.