Short-term functional decline and service use in older emergency department patients with blunt injuries

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 679-686

  Wilber, Scott T ^a   Blanda, Michelle ^a   Gerson, Lowell W ^a   Allen, Kyle R ^a,b  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIMB FRACTURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77955895451     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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