Expectations of patients, nurses and physicians in geriatric nursing home emergencies

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 283-286

  Bluemel, M K ^a   Traweger, C ^b   Kinzl, J F ^a   Baubin, M A ^a   Lederer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COOPERATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; NURSING HOME; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRIA; COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; NURSING HOMES; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79953185777     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2010.093948     Document Type: Article

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