Use of emergency departments by elderly patients: Projections from a multicenter data base

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 819-824

  Strange, Gary R ^a,d   Chen, Edwin H ^b,d   Sanders, Arthur B ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Society for Academic Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

geriatrics

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0026645442     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(05)81028-5     Document Type: Article

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