Emergency room geriatric assessment - Urgent, important or both?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 612-613

  Conroy, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; SPECIALISM;

EID: 56749179334     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn215     Document Type: Editorial

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