Table 1 Overview of comprehensive geriatric assessment in URGENT

Functional

❖ Activities of daily living (Katz index [35])

❖ Fall History [34]

❖ Taking stairs

❖ Pain [34]

❖ Nutritional status: Appetite and weight loss [34]

❖ Alcohol use and smoking

❖ Medication intake

❖ Dyspnea [34]

Cognitive

❖ Screening for cognition: three-item word memory and clock drawing (Mini-Cog^© [36])

❖ Orientation in time and place

❖ Attention

❖ Depressive symptoms (3-item screening tool for depression [38])

❖ Screening for delirium (Confusion Assessment Method [37])

Social

❖ Age

❖ Gender

❖ Living situation (alone, together, other) [34]

❖ Formal care at home (e.g. nurse, meals on wheels, cleaning help, physiotherapist)

❖ Informal care at home (e.g. help from family, friends)

❖ Caregiver burden [34]

Medical

❖ Triage priority level (Emergency Severity Index [25])

❖ Reason for admission

❖ First treating discipline on the ED

❖ Diagnosis

❖ Polypharmacy

❖ ED and hospital use in the last months