Older adults who persistently present to the emergency department with severe, non-severe, and indeterminate episode patterns

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kaskie, Brian ^a   Obrizan, Maksym ^b   Jones, Michael P ^a,g,h   Bentler, Suzanne ^a   Weigel, Paula ^a   Hockenberry, Jason ^a,c   Wallace, Robert B ^a   Ohsfeldt, Robert L ^d   Rosenthal, Gary E ^e   Wolinsky, Fredric D ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Kyiv School of Economics Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

^g VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80054724964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-65     Document Type: Article

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