title: Geriatric Emergent/Urgent and Ambulatory Care: The Pocket NP
author: Sheila Sanning Shea MSN  RN
description: <strong>Sheila Sanning Shea, MSN, RN, ANP, CEN,</strong>
zlib_text:  
  Geriatrics 2020, 5, 20; doi:10.3390/geriatrics5010020 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/geriatrics 
  Communication 
  Screening for Frailty in Older Emergency Patients 
  and Association with Outcome 
  Siobhan Lewis 1, Louis Evans 1,*, Timothy Rainer 1,2 and Jonathan Hewitt 2,3 
  1 Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK; 
  siobhanbrown@doctors.org.uk (S.L.); thrainer@cuhk.edu.hk (T.R.) 
  2 Department of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3XQ, UK; hewittj2@cardiff.ac.uk 
  3 Department of Geriatric Medicine, 3rd Floor Academic Centre, Llandough Hospital, Penlan Road,  
  Cardiff CF642XX, UK 
  * Correspondence: louis.evans@wales.nhs.uk; Tel.: +44-(0)-2920-716982 
  Received: 20 January 2020; Accepted: 10 March 2020; Published: 19 March 2020 
  Abstract: Older people have a high incidence of adverse outcomes after urgent care presentation. 
  Identifying high-risk older patients early is key to targeting interventions at those patients most 
  likely to 